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How sensory language affects the reader's understanding of text
By Elizabeth Degenhart
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Question 1
1.
What does figurative and sensory language do?
They cast a spell
They create a momentary illusion
They engage the senses
All of the above
Question 2
2.
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.
Question 3
3.
Which is your favorite metaphor used to describe Billie? You can go back and watch it again. I'll wait :D.
Question 4
4.
What two things are being compared in this metaphor?
Question 5
5.
How does the
sensory language
in your chosen metaphor make us understand how Billie feels?
Question 6
6.
How does sensory language affect the reader's understanding of the words?
Question 7
7.
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
8.
What two things are being compared in your
simile
in #7?
Hint: one is the quarantine
Question 9
9.
How does your comparison help the reader understand how you feel, how the quarantine affects you?