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Sensory Details, Imagery, and Figurative Language
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Sensory Details, Imagery, and Figurative Language
Objectives
Personification
Personification gives human qualities to things that are not human.
The bright island sun smiled down on the small boy.
Metaphor
Figurative Language
A metaphor compares two unlike things by saying one thing is another.
The boy was a free bird while on the island vacation.
Simile
A simile compares two things using the words like or as.
The boy felt like a free bird while on the island vacation.
Uses of words in imaginative ways to reveal the nature of something by comparing unlike things. Also know as "Figure of Speech".
Figurative language is not meant to be interpreted literally.
3 Types:
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Your Turn!
Sensory Details
Make a list of imagery and sensory details.
Discuss with a partner how these can help and author's writing.
TLW evaluate the impact of sensory details, imagery, and figurative language in literary text. 5.8A
TLW make inferences about text and use textual evidence
F19D
Words and phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
Sight
Taste
Touch
Hearing
Smell
Imagery
Consists of mental pictures or sensations a writer creates through words.
*Look for vivid adjectives and verbs.
Weak Verb Strong Verb
laugh chuckle
Weak Adjective Strong Adjective
fast swift