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Sensory Images. Weeeeeeee !. Sight. You can use specific, literal & figurative details. The sky was blue… The sky was a heavy leaden blue, and…. Smell. You can use metaphors or similes. The locker room smelled like crusty cheese scraped out of a microwave. Touch.
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Sensory Images Weeeeeeee!
Sight • You can use specific, literal & figurative details. • The sky was blue… • The sky was a heavy leaden blue, and…
Smell • You can use metaphors or similes. • The locker room smelled like crusty cheese scraped out of a microwave.
Touch • Michelle’s foot went numb, then heavy and tight before becoming a pincushion for a thousand stabbing sensations.
Hearing • Silence filled her ears like an expanding balloon until her mother’s scream – Catherine! – tore it to pieces.
Taste • The spice of the red pepper flakes burst acridly from the warm, earthy tomato sauce.
Vivid Verbs • My older brother Anthony answered the phone, hoping it was his girlfriend, Shakira. • My older brother Anthony dove across the room and scooped up the phone, hoping it was his girlfriend, Shakira.
Specific Nouns • She fell into the bush and cut herself. • Martine fell into the rose bush and slashed the insides of her arms on the thorns. • He drank coffee in Italy. • Blake sat in the Italian piazza and sipped espresso from a demitasse.