Sensory

images
Sensory images
• is a literary device writers employ to engage
a reader’s mind on multiple levels. Use the
five senses (sight, touch, sound, taste, and
smell) to add depth of detail to writing.
• Although sensory details are most commonly
used in narratives, they can be incorporated into
many types of writing to help your work stand
out.
• Sensory details are powerful and memorable
because they allow your reader to see, hear,
smell, taste, or feel your words.
1.Visual imagery Engages the
sense of sight.
• This is what you can see, and
includes visual descriptions.
Physical attributes including color,
size, shape, lightness , darkness,
shadows, and shade are all part of
visual imagery.
 EXAMPLES:
• For a brief second, a spike of lightning
illuminated the dark purple clouds.
• The sky glowed with orange and pink light
as the sun set.
2. gustatory imagery Engages the
sense of taste.
• This is what you can taste and
include flavors. This can
include the five basic tastes -
sweet, salty, bitter, sour and
umami - as well as the textures
and sensations tied to the act of
eating.
 EXAMPLES:
• The sweet yet tart taste of the apple juice
flooded his mouth.
• The grape burst in my mouth, the sweet
juices running across my hands.
3. tactile imagery Engages the
sense of touch.
• This is what you can feel, and
includes textures and the many
sensations a human being
experiences when touching
something. Differences in
temperature is also a part of
tactile imagery.
 EXAMPLES:
• The wool jacket felt prickly againts her
fingers.
• The toad was slimy in her hands.
4. auditory imagery Engages the
sense of hearing.
• This is the way things
sound. Literary devices
such as onomatopoeia and
alliteration can help create
sounds in writing.
 EXAMPLES:
• A faint buzz of voices came from behind
the closed door.
• Tom Waits is famed for his coarse gravelly
voice.
5. olfactory imagery Engages the
sense of smell.
• Scent is one of the most
direct triggers of memory
and emotion, but can be
difficult to write about.
Since taste and smell are so
closely linked.
• You’ll sometimes find the same words
(such as “sweet”) used to describe both.
Simile is common in olfactory imagery,
because it allows writers to compare a
particular scent to common smells like dirt,
grass, manure, or roses.
 EXAMPLES:
• The sharp aroma of pine needles filled the
air.
• As she entered the warm house, she was
welcomed by the scents of hot apple cider
and cinnamon.
RIDDLES
 RIDDLES
Riddle definition:
• A riddle is a question or
statement that offers a
puzzle to be solved.
• Riddles are questions or
statements that offer a
puzzle to be solved.
• They often involve critical
thinking on the reader’s
part in order to figure out
the answer, and this offers
challenging entertainment.
• Riddles are sometimes called brain
teasers, but this term actually refers
to a broader category of thought-
based games.
• Riddles are just one form of brain
teaser, alongside crosswords,
Sudoku puzzles, and even math
problems (when they’re set up for
fun).
 • The word “conundrum” is
sometimes used
interchangeably with “riddle,”
but this is fairly unusual.
• In most cases, the word
“conundrum” refers to a real,
practical problem, rather than
a game.
Types
of
Riddles
 Enigma
• Enigmas are types of riddles that
employ the use of allegorical or
metaphorical devices.
• These riddles involve critical thinking
and ingenuity on the solver’s behalf in
order to devise a solution.
 Example:
• I have a tail and a body, but I
am not a snake. What am I?
 CONUNDRUM
• A conundrum is a riddle that
relies on the use of puns in
order to achieve its desired
effect.
 Example
• What kind of tree can
you carry in your hand?
 Pun
• A pun is the basic building block of many riddles.
It’s a play on words in which a word’s multiple
meanings are used for comedy or amusement.
• For example, the word “batter” can mean either a
baseball player or a sloppy bowl of flour, eggs,
and milk. Thus, the term “pancake batter” is a
pun that could mean the bowl of ingredients – or a
stack of pancakes that plays for a baseball team!
 The Function
of
Riddles
• While riddles often serve the function of
entertaining the audience by proposing challenging
questions to be solved, they also serve other
purposes. For instance, they may allow for deeper
thinking regarding an issue or to allow other
questions to arise. By using riddles in these
situations, it requires the reader to think of several
possibilities in a critical manner rather than a
superficial reading.
 The Importance
of
Riddles
• For the most part, riddles are just games – they’re told for fun, and to
pass time. In ancient societies, they were also thought of as great tests of
intelligence and cleverness, and sometimes they are still used this way.
The most famous example is the Riddle of the Sphinx, from
Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. (See section 7 for the riddle.) In the play, the
sphinx would kill anyone who failed to answer its riddle. The hero,
Oedipus, is the first person to solve the riddle, thus proving his wisdom
and showing himself worthy to pass by the sphinx.
• In addition to being fun, riddles can also be quite
useful! That’s because solving them requires you to
think hard about the words involved, and this
strengthens the parts of the brain that deal with
language. When presented with a riddle, the brain
searches through all the words and their various
meanings, and solving the riddle depends on locating
the combination of meanings that will unlock the
puzzle – sort of like a combination lock. The more
riddles you work on, the faster your brain gets at this
process, which means it is getting better at
processing words and ideas.