Sensory Images

Mr. Vince Justin Roland S. Madriaga

English Teacher
“Imagine you are in a park. It may be a park in a city or a scenic area. There
is a small pool of water in the center. A large grassy area surrounds the
water. In the distance, there are picnic tables and barbecue grills. You can
see lights over a sports area beyond the picnic tables.”
What do you see?
Are there people there?
Are there children playing?
Are people playing, swimming or fishing?
Is the water frozen?
What color is the grass?
What sounds do you hear?
Does it appear to be a windy or still day?
What is the temperature?
What do you smell?
What feelings would you have if you were in the park?
How do the people in the park feel?
What did you learn about your ability to use imagery when doing
descriptive writing?
How do you think imagery may improve your ability as a writer?
What impact might the use of imagery have on a piece of written work?
 An image in language that describes something that can be seen,
heard, touched, tasted, or smelled.
Imagery The images in a literary work are referred to, when considered
together, as the work’s imagery.
 They make the reading active.
Images create a clear picture that aids your imagination.
Sensory
They also help you make your reading three dimensional - you can
Images see, hear, feel, smell, and even touch what the text describes.
  Sight—visual imagery
 Sound—auditory imagery
 Touch—tactile imagery
 Smell—olfactory imagery
 Taste—gustatory imagery
  The sun’s beams shimmered and danced on the ocean’s gentle
Visual waves.
 Example:

Her head nodded and her wrists were active, showing off the jingling
bracelets she had bought at the mall.
  Although they could not see outside the cabin, they could hear the
Auditory eerie tapping, tapping, tapping, of his knife upon their door.
 Examples:
a. The birds sang sweetly.
b. The tinkling of broken glass
c. She shrieked with joy.
  The fragrant roses drifted through the room like elusive ghosts.
Olfactory
 Examples:
a. As stinky as a dirty diaper
b. It smelled like rotten eggs.
c. It smelled clean and fresh, like Grandma’s laundry.
d. He reminded her of her grandfather, a scent of peppermint and
tobacco.
  The cheesecake’s exquisite flavor traveled from his tongue to his
Gustatory spine.
 Examples:
a. The sour taste of vomit
b. As salty as a potato chip
c. Thick, not-too-sweet chocolate, with a hint of orange
d. The metallic taste of blood
  The icy breeze gently brushed against the hair on her neck, and
Tactile goose-bumps shortly followed.
 Examples:
a. She caressed the cool, smooth cover of the laptop.
b. It was as soft as rabbit’s fur.
c. The biscuit was as hard as a rock.
 Possible Questions:

LET’S SUM IT 1. What are sensory images?

2. How do sensory images help the readers in understanding the selection
UP! read?
 Directions: Below are phrases taken form the selection you just read.
Underline the word/s which suggest/s the use of sensory images, the tell
whether it is visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and gustatory. Write your
answer on your paper.
Example:
 “their teeth began to chatter in despair - auditory

EVALUATION 1. Here sighs and cries and wails coiled and recoiled on the starless air
2. Came an old man with white bush of hair
3. The terror of it bathes me with sweat even in memory
4. My harsh tear-laden earth exhaled a wind
5. Just as he finished, the blackened landscape
  Directions: Copy a short poem and underline the sensory images used.
Tell whether it is visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and gustatory. Do this on
ASSIGNMENT your notebook.
Elements of Prose
Mr. Vince Justin Roland S. Madriaga
English Teacher
  Setting is the time and place in which the events of a story occur. It
consists of the use of evocative portrayal of a region’s distinctive
Setting ways of thoughts and behavior or the so-called “local color”
exemplified by the superficial elements of setting, dialect, and
customs.
  Characters are the representations of a human being in a story.
They are the complex combination of inner and outer self.
Characters
 Characterization – is the method used by the writer to reveal the
personality of the character/s.
 According to Principality
1. Protagonist – the character with whom the reader empathizes
2. Antagonist – the character that goes against the main character,
usually the protagonist.
Characters
(cont…) According to Development
1. Dynamic – the character that exhibits noticeable development.

Kinds of 2. Static – the character who exhibits no changes and development

Characters According to Personality

1. Round – the character that displays different/multiple personalities
throughout the story.
2. Flat – the character that reveals conventional traits, who remains the
same throughout the story. Its characterization does not grow.
  the sequence of events in the story, arranged and linked by
Plot causality
 1. Linear Plot – moves with the natural sequence of events where
actions are arranged sequentially.
2. Circular Plot – a kind of plot where linear development of the
Kinds of Plot story merges with and interruption in the chronological order to
show an event that happened in the past.
3. En Medias Res – a kind of plot where the story commences in
the middle part of the action.
 Parts of a Plot

Climax

Crisis Denouement
Complication Ending

Exposition
 Exposition is the part of the plot that sets the scene by introducing
the situation and settings and likewise lays out the characters by
Exposition introducing their environment, characteristics, pursuit, purposes,
limitations, potentials, and basic assumptions.
  Complication is the start of the major conflict or problem in the
Complication plot.
  Crisis is the part that establishes curiosity, uncertainty, and
Crisis tension; it requires a decision.
 Climax is the peak of the story which leads to an affirmation, a
Climax decision, an action, or even a realization. This is the point of greatest
emotional intensity, interest, as well as suspense.
 Denouement is the finishing of things right after the climax, and
Denouement shows the resolution of the plot.
Ending Ending is the part that brings the story back to its equilibrium.
 1. Flashback is the writer’s use of interruption of the chronological
sequence of a story to go back to related incidents which
occurred prior to the beginning of the story.
Literary
2. Foreshadowing is the writer’s use of hints or clues to indicate
Devices events that will occur later in the story. The use of this
technique both creates suspense and prepares the reader for
what is to come.
 Conflict is the opposition of persons or forces in a story that give
Conflict rise to the dramatic action in a literary work. It is the basic tension,
predicament, or challenge that propels a story’s plot.
  Person vs. Person is a type of conflict where one character in the
story has a problem with one or more of the characters.
 Person vs. Society is a type of conflict where a character has a
conflict or problem with some element of society – the school, the
law, the accepted way of doing things, and so on.
 Person vs. Self is a type of conflict where a character has trouble
Types of deciding what to do in a particular situation.
Conflict  Person vs. Nature is a type of conflict where a character has a
problem with some natural happening: a snowstorm, an
avalanche, the bitter cold, or any elements common to nature.
 Person vs. Fate is a type of conflict where a character has to battle
what seems to be an uncontrollable problem. Whenever the
problem seems to be a strange or unbelievable coincidence, fate
can be considered the cause and effect.
 Point of View determines the narrator of the story; the one who tells
Point of View it from different points of view.
  First-Person Point of View is a character-narrator who tells the
story in the “I” voice, expressing his own views. He is either a
minor or main character that tells the story in his own words.
 Third-Person Omniscient Point of View is a narrator that tells the
story from an all-knowing point of view. He sees the mind of all
the characters.
 Third-Person Limited Point of View has a narrator that tells only
Types of Point what he can see or hear “inside the world” of the story. This
narrator is otherwise known as “camera technique narrator” as he
of View does not reveal what the characters are thinking or feeling.
 Third-Person Central Point of View has a narrator that limits
narration to what the central character thinks, feels, does, and
what and whom the central character observes.
 Third-Person Editorial Point of View has a narrator that
comments on the action by telling the readers its significance or
evaluating the behavior of the characters.