Sensory Language = the language the author uses to create images by appealing to the reader’s senses Imagery = one type of sensory language the author uses to create a visual or mental picture Sensory Language The author uses the description to Text (example Illustration from the text) show— (what you visualize based on the author’s words) Willie & “Willie would close his eyes and feel just like he was I see a late afternoon baseball game. how much Willie loved at Wrigley Field, his heart pumping to the sound of (You can draw this for your baseball and everything the balls slamming into mitts, sending puffs of old leather students.) about it. It also shows how dust into the afternoon sunlight as waves of fresh-cut much Willie wanted to go to grass tickled his nose.” Wrigley Field because it was a place that was “alive” with all things baseball. Willie & “And then there were the Negro League players. A I see a team of white players with the difference in the way the ragtag collection they were, in uniforms tattered and pristine uniforms and the best Major League players and the the faded from too many trips up and down backcountry equipment, but then I see a team of Negro League players were roads. Shoes softened and worn with age and black players who are in hand-me dressed and how they acted memories of two or three games a day. Baseball downs and have old equipment. (You before a huge game. gloves patched up, tied and retied too many times.” can draw this for your students.) Pink and “Then fever must have took me good, ‘cause I could feel a cool sweet-smelling quilt next to my face. Soft, Say gentle warm hands were strokin’ my head with a cool wet rag cloth.”
Sensory Language = the language the author uses to create images by appealing to the reader’s senses Imagery = one type of sensory language the author uses to create a visual or mental picture Text Sensory Language (example from the text) Illustration (what you visualize based on the author’s words) The author uses the description to show— Willie & the “Willie would close his eyes and feel just like he was at Wrigley Field, his heart pumping to the sound of balls slamming into mitts, sending puffs of old leather dust into the afternoon sunlight as waves of fresh-cut grass tickled his nose.” I see a late afternoon baseball game. (You can draw this for your students.) how much Willie loved baseball and everything about it. It also shows how much Willie wanted to go to Wrigley Field because it was a place that was “alive” with all things baseball. Willie & the “And then there were the Negro League players. A ragtag collection they were, in uniforms tattered and faded from too many trips up and down backcountry roads. Shoes softened and worn with age and memories of two or three games a day. Baseball gloves patched up, tied and retied too many times.” I see a team of white players with pristine uniforms and the best equipment, but then I see a team of black players who are in hand-me downs and have old equipment. (You can draw this for your students.) the difference in the way the Major League players and the Negro League players were dressed and how they acted before a huge game. Pink and Say “Then fever must have took me good, ‘cause I could feel a cool sweet-smelling quilt next to my face. Soft, gentle warm hands were strokin’ my head with a cool wet rag cloth.”
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