What is sensory language?

Answer 1

Sensory Language is the use of all five senses in a poem. taste, sound, vision, smell, touch.

Sensory language appeals to the senses. When a writer describes how something looks, sounds, feels, tastes, or smells in detail, it is sensory language.

Answer 2

1. Sensory language is when the author uses words and details that appeal to a reader's senses (sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell, emotion). Also transmitting impulses from sense organs to nerve centers; afferent.

Answer 3

Sensory language is language that appeals to the five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell) to create a vivid and evocative description. By using sensory language, writers can paint a more detailed and engaging picture for the reader, enhancing the reader's experience and understanding of a scene or subject.

Answer 4

Sensory language is language that pertains to the five senses.

Which means it has to talk about at least one of the 5 senses--sight, touch, taste, sound, or smell.

Examples:

My sight is stolen because of your radiance.

I cannot feel the softest cloth; only the roughest sand.

Taste is not for food, but for art.

Only do I hear the sparrows' sing; not hammers or shouts or booms.

My nose is so keen, that I can smell the dullest flower from miles away.

Note that sensory language doesn't actually have to have one of those five words in it though... anything that you can see, taste, touch, hear, or smell would count as sensory.

Answer 5

language that appeals to the five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell

Answer 6

Touch taste see