1. Appealing to the senses
IMAGERY
Appealing to the senses

2. What are the 5 senses? Sight Sound Touch Taste Smell 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Sight
Sound
Touch
Taste
Automatic timing - all
Smell

3. What descriptive words can be used for this image?
All on click
What senses do those descriptive words appeal to?

4. Descriptive words:
All on click
Sensory appeal:

5. All on click
Descriptive words:
Sensory appeal:

6. All on click
Descriptive words:
Sensory appeal:

7. All on click
Descriptive words:
Sensory appeal:

8. Creates realistic mental experience for reader
Using Imagery
Creates realistic mental experience for reader
Sour
Putrid
Slimy
WORDS
response or emotion =
Click: title and image
Then auto entry for rest of slide

9. Identifying Imagery
Teacher model: The hot July sun beat relentlessly down, casting an orange glare over the farm buildings, the fields, the pond. Even the usually cool green willows bordering the pond hung wilted and dry. Our sun-baked backs ached for relief.

10. Class Activity
Identify sensory imagery in the following paragraph: We quickly pulled off our sweaty clothes and plunged into the pond, but the tepid water only stifled us and we soon climbed onto the brown, dusty bank. Our parched throats longed for something cool--a strawberry ice, a tall frosted glass of lemonade.

11. Your Turn!
Type I: Read the following passage and jot down 5-8 examples of descriptive language, then identify the type of sensory appeal each image targets.
We pulled on our clothes and headed through the dense, crackling underbrush, the sharp briars pulling at our damp jeans, until we reached the watermelon patch. As we began to cut open the nearest melon, we could smell the pungent skin mingling with the dusty odor of the dry earth. Suddenly, the melon gave way with a crack, revealing the deep, pink sweetness inside.

12. Literary Devices
Writers often use literary devices to increase the sense of imagery for the reader. The examples include certain writing techniques that can be used to enrich your writing.

13. Simile Metaphor Figurative Language relatively unlike
unlike things
LIKE/AS
direct comparison
Example: Her smile was like a glorious sunrise.
Metaphor
relatively unlike IS
implied comparison
Example: The muscles on his brawny arms are iron bands of power.

14. WORDS AS sounds Personification Onomatopoeia animal, an object,
comparison
animal, an object,
or an idea
feeling or attitude
Example: The oak, a regal brute, fell with a creaking, rending cry.
Onomatopoeia
WORDS AS sounds
Example: CRRRAAACCCCKK!!

15. Alliteration Hyperbole
melody
similarities
and
contrasts
mood
call attention
Example: The whipping wind whistles along the plain.
Hyperbole
emphasize
Example: In my day, I had to walk uphill to school every day during snowstorms – both ways!!
exaggerated

16. Teacher Model Joe was snapping like a demon. Once his teeth closed
on the fore leg of a husky, and he crunched down
through the bone. Pike, the malingerer, leaped upon
the crippled animal, breaking its neck with a quick
flash of teeth and a jerk. Buck got a frothing
adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood
when his teeth sank through the jugular. The warm
taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater
fierceness. He flung himself upon another, and at the
same time felt teeth sink into his own throat. It was
Spitz, treacherously attacking from the side.