Sensory language is when the author uses words and details that appeal to a reader's senses (sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell, emotion). Discuss how this technique adds to your understanding and enjoyment of the novel.
Be specific and use examples.
11 comments:
I think sensory language is very important I love it. It is what makes you want to turn the page it is the way the author takes you into the story and makes it seem like you are actually the one in the story. An example from my book that i think is good sensory launguage it the line "Maybe that is why I decided to break the rules that day; maybe I just liked to feel the wind streaming through my hair, free and uncuncumbered." From the book "Double Idenity"
This technique is very important and helps me understand the writing more by painting a picture in my head! I can see the topic in my mind, and can focus on it, and really get into it. When I write myself,I love putting sensory lanquage into my pieces! It reminds me of what I was thinking when I wrote it, if I find it and say I remember this! In books it is what draws me in, and make connections to the the text. As Emma said its what keeps me turning the page. It triggers memories from my past. An example of one is "I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the oppisite of day, but it's underside, it's private side when the fabulas purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert." From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli. There were many examples in this book that could be used here, this is only one!
Lizzie
I think that sensory language is a very powerful way to express the surroundings where the scene in the book is taking place. Sensory language can be a very important note that can pop up later in the book and begin to explain something new. It is also a way to pull the reader into the story and put a picture in their mind. In the book that I am reading called, "A Light in the Attic" , by Shel Silverstein there is a sentence that has sensory language in it. "For I like my damsels medium rare, but they always come out well done." This is an example of taste and a visual.
Tori W.
I really like how in the Uglies series there is so much action and people are always talking. I think that it must have been hard for the author at times. Like when he is explaining something like a hoverboard the author will say " All four hoverboards were in the air now, their lifting fans giving off orange glimmers of heat. Also he'll say something like "All those operations had filled her with icy new muscles and reflexes tweaked to snakelike speed. I think that the author did a great job using good description and sensory language! It really helped get a good picture in my head while I was reading it (Emily K.)
I think sensory language is very important in books for many reasons. For example sensory language helps you paint a picture in your mind about whats happening. An example in a book I found was " The grey figure of the man, Aragorn, was tall, and stern as stone,his hand upon the hilt of the sword; he looked as if some king out of the mists of the sea had stepped upon the shores of lesser men." It is from a book called "The Lord of The Rings The Two Towers" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
(Finn C)
Sensory language is very important when you’re writing or reading a book. When an author uses sensory language I can picture everything that is happening in the book. I get to feel how the character feels. An example of sensory language from the book Shackleton's Stowaway is "He could hear the dolphins swimming alongside the ship, though it was still to dark to see them." When I read this I could hear the dolphins swimming and picture it being very dark out.
Caroline L.
What makes a story good is sensory language. What sensory language does is tell you what something looks like, smells like, feels like, tastes like,and sounds like. Without it you wouldn't be able to picture anything in a book if you don't no any description about it. To me, the definition of sensory language is: the description of a person, thing, or object.I am reading The Book of Virtues and I read:
"The king rode slowly along.He had once seen a spring of clear water near this pathway. If he could only find it now!But the hot days of summer dried up all the mountian brooks."
This was not VERY descriptive, but it gave enough to show what the scene looked like;A king in a carriage,looking out thinking how before the summer dried up the spring, ha admired how clear and pretty it was. If an author just wrote it like that people would not understand.Sensory language is very important.
Liz-(H)
Sensory language makes a good book even more amazing by making it so you're the character in the story. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows there is so much of this kind of language it’s crazy. One example is “He was walking along a mountain road in the cool blue light of dawn.” As I read this, I could picture myself really cold and alone on a dark road just before the sun comes up.
(Sarah B.)
I think that sensory language helps the reader understand what a character or item looks like. Sensory language helps describe things to the reader. One example of sensory language I found was in "The House of the Scorpion". This example was "He couldn't produce tears for El Viejo, but he did feel sorry for him, lying there like a starved bird in his silk lined coffin", this helped me to see what El Viejo's dead body looked like and also what his body lloked like in comparison to his grand and fancy coffin.
-James Monroe
I think sensory language can make a book go from good to great. It really helps express the voice of the story. I love it when a word is capitalized like the word NO. It makes the voice shine through. Without sensory language the book will be so emotionless.
Nicole S.
Sensory language is really important in writing. Without descriptions of different sights, sounds, touch, taste or smell, a book would be plain and boring. Sensory language also implants a picture or feeling into your head that puts you in the story. For example, this quote from Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve "Above the clouds, the rockets flare and bang, and the light of an exploding airship washes across the upturned faces of the crowd, who murmur, "Ooooooooh."
Tim E
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