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Sensory Language Showing vs. Telling

Sensory Language Showing vs. Telling. Sensory Language Notes. Sight Sound Smell Taste Touch. Example 1. From Maya Angelou’s  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings :

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Sensory Language Showing vs. Telling

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  1. Sensory Language Showing vs. Telling

  2. Sensory LanguageNotes • Sight • Sound • Smell • Taste • Touch

  3. Example 1 • From Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: • I looked around the room that I had never in my wildest fantasies imagined I would see. Brownedphotographs leered or threatened from the walls and the white, freshly done curtains pushed against themselves and against the wind.

  4. Example 2 • From Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: • They were flat roundwafers, slightly brownedon the edges and butter-yellow in the center. • WHY DO WE USE SENSORY LANGUAGE?

  5. SensoryLanguage • is the use of details from the five senses to add color and depth to writing. • It helps readers visualize the scene a writer is setting.

  6. Visual Imagery Language that helps the reader “see” Example Words flashbrightsharpclear lightdarklargeblue

  7. Auditory Images Language used to help the reader “hear” what is taking place Example Words scream shout tone whisper ring utter nasal squeal quiet

  8. Images of Smell Language that evokes smell for readers Examples pungent fragrant sweet dank rich aroma stinky musty rotten odor foul *Use of similes and metaphors help strengthen images of smell

  9. Images of Taste Example Words sweet sour salty bitter fresh juicy bland burnt zesty tangy

  10. Images of Touch This is language that can help the reader understand touch, temperature, movement, and feelings Example Words warm grasp sharp cold rugged joyful fuzzy hard

  11. Activity: Using Sensory Language Some of the most famous photographs that changed the world are about to follow. Your task is to use sensory language to describe what is taking place. You must do the following: --highlight all the sensory words -- 3 sentences each.

  12. Example: The Kissing Sailor Her white shoe lifts off the black asphalt softly as her knee bends towards him. People cheer in the street all around them as they stream out of brick store and office buildings as the news broadcast screams down the boulevard, “Victory! Victory!” Alfred Eisenstaedt 1945

  13. FLOWER POWER Bernie Boston

  14. Raising the Second Flag at Iwo JimaJoe Rosenthal Feb. 23, 1945

  15. 1961 Hans Conrad Schumann jumping into West Berlin by Peter Leibing

  16. Your Homework • Find an Image (internet, magazine, book) and write a 4 sentence description of the photo using Sensory Language. Be sure to include the image and underline all of the Sensory Language that you use. • DUE TUESDAY

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