Lesson Objectives read intensively to find answers to specific questions; discover literature as a means of connecting to a significant past; and express appreciation for sensory images used.
How many senses do we have? What are those senses?
What makes stories and poems memorable, aside from the plots, characters and rhymes, is the lush imagery that makes up their magical words.
Don’t be limited by the word “ image ,” which you may think only refers to visual images. In poetry, there are sound images too. Odors are images of scent. Textures, hardness, softness, wetness, heat, and cold are tactile images. What something tastes like, whether it is food or not, is an image of taste. There are five (5) kinds of imagery: visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and tactile .
REVIEW! What are sensory images? What are the different sensory images? What are the benefits of using sensory images in writing, especially in poems?