2. Make Sense! Directions: Use a dictionary and look up examples
of sensory words. Then place them in their correct category.
3. Portray!
Directions: Recall the character of Maria in How My
Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife. What sensory
words did the author use to portray her character?
Her nails were long, but they were not
painted.
SIGHT
4. Picture It!
Directions: Play the sound of sea waves. Close your
eyes for 1 minute and imagine you‘re in a beach.
What do you see, hear, and feel? The words will be
written on the board to form clusters.
7. There are five types of imagery. Try rearranging the letters to find out
the term for each type of imagery.
VISUAL
8. There are five types of imagery. Try rearranging the letters to find out
the term for each type of imagery.
AUDITORY
9. There are five types of imagery. Try rearranging the letters to find out
the term for each type of imagery.
OLFACTORY
10. There are five types of imagery. Try rearranging the letters to find out
the term for each type of imagery.
GUSTATORY
11. There are five types of imagery. Try rearranging the letters to find out
the term for each type of imagery.
TACTILE
12. CHECKPOINT:Directions: Identify the type of imagery used in the following
statements. Write VIS for visual imagery, OLF for olfactory imagery, GUS for
gustatory imagery, AUD for auditory imagery, and TAC for tactile imagery.
_______ 1. She was fragrant like a morning when papayas
are in bloom.
_______ 2. Her teeth were very white, her eyes were so
full of laughter, and there was the small dimple high up on
her right cheek.
_______ 3. The sound of his insides was like a drum.
_______ 4. Ca Celin drove away hi-yi-ing to his horse
loudly.
13. _______ 5. The sky was wide and deep and very
blue.
_______ 6. The fields swam in a golden haze
through which floated big purple and red and
yellow bubbles.
_______ 7. He faced the sun and from his
mouth came a call so loud and vibrant.
14. _______ 8. The earth seemed to tremble underfoot.
_______ 9. The wind whistled against my cheeks and
the rattling of the wheels on the pebbly road echoed
in my ears.
_______ 10. The thick, unpleasant smell of dangla
bushes and cooling sun-heated earth mingled with
the clean, sharp scent of roots exposed to the night
air.
15. INKBLOT: Count off 1 to 5. Each number corresponds to the type of
imagery that you will write about in a stanza of four lines containing rhyme.
1 - My Favorite Sight
2 - My Favorite Smell
3 - My Favorite Sound
4 - My Favorite Taste
5 - My Favorite Feeling
16. WRITE ON! The following are pictures and scenarios which may be
familiar to you. From these pictures, create your own sentences using any
of the five types of imagery.
18. CHECKPOINT: Directions: Identify the type of imagery used in the
following statements. Write VIS for visual imagery, OLF for olfactory
imagery, GUS for gustatory imagery, AUD for auditory imagery, and TAC
for tactile imagery.
_______ 11. I thought of the food being made ready at
home and my mouth watered.
_______ 12. I laid a hand on Labang's massive neck.
_______ 13. Her eyes were on the long, curving horns.
_______ 14. He rattled the handle of his braided rattan
whip against the spokes of the wheel.
_______ 15. Labang‘s white coat glistened like beaten
cotton under the lamplight.
19. _______ 16. O, she does teach the torches to burn
bright!
_______ 17. Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble
soft, the redbreast whistles from a garden-croft.
_______ 18. Languidly, and with no thought of going
in, I watched him, his hard little body, skinny and
bare, saw him wince slightly.
_______ 19. He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee.
_______ 20. It was a rimy morning, and very damp.
