Imagery

Using Sensory Detail

Imagery

An image is language that describes something that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled.

Imagery is used in literature to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.

Sensory Detail : are ways of describing things using the 5 senses.

Sight

The sun’s beams shimmered and danced on the ocean’s gentle waves.

Smell

The fragrant roses drifted through the room like elusive ghosts.

Sound

Although they could not see outside the cabin, they could hear the eerie tapping, tapping, tapping, of his knife upon their door.

Taste

The cheesecake’s exquisite flavor traveled from his tongue to his spine.

Touch

The icy breeze gently brushed against the hair on her neck, and goose-bumps shortly followed.