PAINT WITH WORDS
These sensory details are used in this sentence: "The warm cookies filled the kitchen with their sweet aroma".
What is smell (aroma) and touch/temperature (warm)?
This sentence shows personification.
a) The dog barked loudly.
b) The wind whispered.
What is a, "The wind whispered."?
What might a heart symbolize?
What are love, caring, or affection etc.?
This is an example of alliteration
a.) "big blue balloon"
b.) "red round ball"?
What is either?
a.) "big blue balloon"
and
b.) "red round ball"?
The two senses being used in this sentence: "The rough bark crackled and popped as the campfire roared".
What is touch (rough) and sound (crackled, popped, roared)?
These are two examples of personification in this sentence:
"The stars winked at me from above while my alarm clock yelled that it was time to wake up."
What are "stars winked" and "clock yelled"?
In a story a dark storm might symbolize this.
What is trouble, danger, problems, conflict etc.?
In the sentence below, this sound is alliterated.
Find the alliteration in: "The slithering snake silently slid south."
What is "s"?
The icy wind howled through the trees, sending crisp autumn leaves dancing across the frozen ground,"
These are three different types of imagery in the above sentence.
What is temperature (icy), sound (howled), and movement (dancing)?
Which is NOT personification:
a) The sun smiled down
b) The boy smiled widely
c) Time crawled by
d) The flowers danced
What is b) The Boy smiled widely?
The contrasting yards in the sentence below might symbolize this.
"The old man's garden bloomed with fresh roses while his neighbor's yard was full of weeds,"
What is any two things that are opposites, like good and evil?
This is an example of alliteration using the word "purple".
What is . . . . . ?
"Peter's purple pencil precisely pointed"
This is the dominant type of imagery in this sentence:
"The rusty doorknob groaned as flakes of copper paint sprinkled onto the weathered welcome mat"?
What is visual imagery?
Identify TWO examples of personification in:
"Fear knocked at the door, but Faith answered and no one was there."
What are "feared knocked" and "faith answered"?
These are three symbols in this passage:
"As the sun set on the kingdom, the young queen removed her heavy crown and placed it beside her father's broken sword and a single white feather."
What are heavy crown, broken sword, white feather?
This is an example of a sentence where the alliterative sound switches halfway through.
What is . . . .?
The playful puppy pranced past while the mighty mouse marched merrily.