Thursday's Bell Ringer: *Sensory
Details: In your craft lesson section, pick one of these statements and show it using details
that apply to the 5 senses
*It was weird.
*I was scared.
*The lake is creepy.
Post as a comment to this post your partner's best sentence from the descriptive writing. Then identify what sense it most connects to.
"A rotting creek bed filled my nose as I ran through it; the mud capturing my feet like quick sand."
ReplyDeleteSmell and touch
"I watched the fog rise up from the water, and felt the breeze as hairs began to rise on my arms."
ReplyDeleteI could see the connection with sense of touch. The wind blowing and "rising hairs on my arms" part was something I could relate to, and made it easy to feel that sensation.
"Thunder boomed and rattled the sky around me and seemed to create ripples on the murky water of the lake."
ReplyDeleteSound and Sight
"I watched the fog rise up from the water, and felt the breeze as hairs began to rise on my arms."
ReplyDeleteI could see the connection with sense of touch. The wind blowing and "rising hairs on my arms" part was something I could relate to, and made it easy to feel that sensation.
"I watched the fog rise up from the water, and felt the breeze as hairs began to rise on my arms."
ReplyDeleteI could see the connection with sense of touch. The wind blowing and "rising hairs on my arms" part was something I could relate to, and made it easy to feel that sensation.
Touch - You can feel the soft ground forming around your feet with every step.
ReplyDelete"The breeze sends a chill throughout my whole body and continues to spread the smell, and taste, of mud and dead fish in the air."
ReplyDeleteTouch, smell, taste
It was weird, the way the brown pecan pie smelt as its aroma ambushed through the tall door.
ReplyDeleteSmell
As is lazily retreated, the river gave a deep mournful sigh.
ReplyDeleteSight and sound
"The nearby stench grew stronger and stronger, taking over the body, filling the nostrils and mouth, overtaking the ability to smell or taste anything else."
ReplyDeleteThis gives the description of both the taste and smell of the lake.
* I was scared *
ReplyDelete" As I got up, my mouth still tasting like wet soil, I heard a crash in the woods beside me. "
The best sensory technique used on this is either hearing or taste.
An eerie, thick mist lurks above the venomous, green water.
ReplyDeleteSIGHT
An eerie, thick mist lurks above the venomous, green water.
ReplyDeleteSIGHT
The complete silence is making your ears strain for any sound, so when you hear the wet footsteps coming up from behind, you tell yourself you're imagining it.
ReplyDeleteThe best connection with this would be the sense of hearing. He describes hearing the "wet footsteps" which allows you to imagine exactly how you feel and what you would hear during that moment.
“ It clouded my senses, coating my tongue with a bitter taste and distracting my sight which was already impaired by the concealing darkness.”
ReplyDeleteThe two senses that are present are taste and sight.
My mouth was numb and craved water and nothing else but the satisfaction of escaping the nightmare I was locked in.
ReplyDelete"I strain my eyes looking for a sign that someone will save me, but all I see is black murky water and a fog so dense that it chokes my breath."
ReplyDeleteThis part connects with the sense of sight.
Amber's Post
ReplyDeleteThe sky promised rain with it's dark bottom bubbling down towards the ground.
Sight
"As I took another step a terrible stench filled and burned my nostrils"
ReplyDeleteI primarily associate this sentence with the sense of smell.
The rock I grabbed had a cold touch, perhaps the freezing, foggy atmosphere I stood in gave aid.
ReplyDeleteThe strange taste of dew and the fresh rain crept up into my mouth.
ReplyDeleteThis sentence provides for the taste sense.
The putrid smell coming from it, plugged my nostrils.
ReplyDeleteSMELL
The water feels like hot, thick blood that just came out of a mammoth Grizzly bear. This is the sense of touch.
ReplyDelete"I was scared because I could hear the screaming of pigs and playing of banjos."
ReplyDeleteI think this is the sense of hearing?
I was Scared, I could feel the hairs on my arms standing almost completly vertically.
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ReplyDeleteThe night air is crisp and the only sound to be heard is the crickets.
ReplyDelete-sound
I regained my confidence and began gently sticking the tips of my toes in; the cold water immediately snapped at my senses-sending an electric shock up my bones-causing goose bumps to form below my skin. This is an example of touch.
ReplyDeleteas i touched a mans leg his burnt flesh peeled off, as i grabbed him i puked in my mouth from the taste of burnt flesh in the area
ReplyDeleteAs the dark green moss falls back into the lake, the echo of the coming thunder pounds through the sky.
ReplyDeleteSight
Sound
As he was walking further the howling grew...when he saw the hut he couldn't hear anything except terrifying wailing.
ReplyDeleteExample of both sight and sound
I felt something move at my feet, my eyes snapped and I looked all around me but only saw darkness. (sight+tactile)
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