Enabling Objective: Learners will identify the imagery (tactile, aural, visual, olfactory, gustatory, or synesthesia) in poetry.

Instructions: Identify the type of imagery (tactile, aural, visual, olfactory, gustatory, or synesthesia) in each example. Your goal should be to get 100% of the answers correct. If you miss a question on the first try, use the hint to help you choose the correct answer on the second try. Still stuck? Review the terms in the lesson on imagery.

1. We shall step upondown, / Uponfleece, / Upon softer than these. Correct feedback: Correct. Notice that these lines focus on how soft materials and textures. Imagine how that would feel to your feet. Incorrect Feedback 1: Notice that these lines focus on how the materials and textures. To what sense does texture appeal? Try again. Incorrect feedback 2: This response is also incorrect. This line includes an example of tactile imagery.

2. Oh, my love is like a melody / That's sweetly played in tune Correct feedback: Correct. Melody and tune are both experiences related to sound, so this is aural imagery. Incorrect feedback 1: The poet compares his/her love to a musical tune. To what sense does music appeal? Try again. Incorrect feedback 2: This response is still incorrect. This line includes an example of aural imagery.

3. Lips--old scars, or the first red blisters Correct feedback: Correct. The poets reference to the color red provide the clue needed to identify this sample as visual imagery. Incorrect feedback 1: Notice that the poet refers to a specific color in the comparison of lips to scars or blisters. To what sense does color appeal? Try again. Incorrect feedback 2: This response is still incorrect. This line includes as example of visual imagery.

4. Smoke, oil, and good clean dirt: / The smell of men a generation ago Correct feedback: Correct. Smoke and oil both have strong smells, and the word smell all indicate that this is indeed an example of olfactory imagery. Incorrect feedback 1: The word smell is mentioned in this line of the poem. Try again. Incorrect feedback 2: This response is still incorrect. These lines include an example of olfactory imagery.

5. Sweet to the tongue is she /as the first taste of honey Correct feedback: Correct. The fact that honeya very sweet-tasting substanceand the tongue are mentioned indicates that this is gustatory imagery. Incorrect feedback 1: The tongue and honey are both mentioned. Try again. Incorrect feedback 2: This response is still incorrect. These lines include an example of gustatory imagery. 6. Sundays too my father got up early / and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold. Correct feedback: Correct. A sensation that the reader can feel on his or her skin (touch) is also being described in terms of colors (visual). Incorrect feedback 1: Focus on the word blueblack. Notice that a sensation (coldness) is being described using color, which appeals to the sense of sight. Try again. Incorrect feedback 2: This imagery appeals simultaneously to the sense of touch and sight. It is an example of synesthesia.