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How sensory language affects the reader's understanding of text

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How sensory language affects the reader

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Question 3

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Which is your favorite metaphor used to describe Billie? You can go back and watch it again. I'll wait :D.

Question 4

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What two things are being compared in this metaphor?

Question 5

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How does the sensory language in your chosen metaphor make us understand how Billie feels?

Question 6

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How does sensory language affect the reader's understanding of the words?

Question 7

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Finish the simile (comparion using like or as) about your recent experience being stuck at home.
Being quarantined at home because of Covid-19 is like/as...

Question 8

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What two things are being compared in your simile in #7?

Hint: one is the quarantine

Question 9

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How does your comparison help the reader understand how you feel, how the quarantine affects you?

What does figurative and sensory language do?

They cast a spell

They create a momentary illusion

They engage the senses

All of the above

Touch is one of the five senses, and it's known as your tactile sense. If there's NOT tactile language is used in fiction:

The spell cast by the fiction may be weak.

The reader might be immersed in the story.

The reader might understand what the character feels like, but not what the character feels.