ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Sensory details are words that stir any of the five senses: touch, taste, sound, smell, and sight. For example, rather than saying “She drank the lemonade, ” say: “She felt her tongue tingle as she sipped the frosty glass of tart, sugary lemonade.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Sensory details are powerful and memorable because they allow your reader to see, hear, smell, taste, or feel your words. Sight (color, shape, appearance) The sky was blue. The sky was a bright blue, like the color that stains your teeth after drinking a blue raspberry slushy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Soft whistling and sizzled let the reader know how things sound. Savory, sweet, and salty let the reader know how things taste. Full and gently combing let you know how something felt. The more sensory language you have, the more you help the reader to experience your writing, as if they were right there with you.

Detailed explanation-4: -The use of words and details that appeal to a reader’s physical senses (sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell).