Directions: Read the excerpts with understanding. Identify what sensory imagery is used
in each statement. Write your answers on your answer sheet. Identify too those words
used as descriptive in each excerpt. Copy the table and write your answers on their
proper column.
Excerpt
Visual
Auditory
Olfactory
Gustatory
Tactile
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1. On rainy afternoons, embroidering with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she
would lose the thread of the conversation and a tear of nostalgia would salt her palate
when she saw the strips of damp earth and the piles of mud that the earthworms had
pushed up in the garden. Those secret tastes, defeated in the past by oranges and
rhubarb, broke out into an irrepressible urge when she began to weep. She went back
to eating earth. The first time she did it almost out of curiosity, sure that the bad taste
would be the best cure for the temptation. And, in fact, she could not bear the earth in
her mouth. But she persevered, overcome by the growing anxiety, and little by little she
was getting back her ancestral appetite, the taste of primary minerals, the unbridled
satisfaction of what was the original food. (One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
García Márquez)
Imagery:
2.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
("Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost)
Imagery:​