Question

Which sentence best uses sensory language to describe the setting? O A. Istarted to walk along my favorite trail. I enjoyed walking through the forest in solitude. I always felt reenergized by the time I got back to my car. O B. I stalked along the trail away from Tara, muttering about the silliness of wasting time playing video games on a tablet when she could be hiking instead. C. No, I did not use social media, waste time playing games on a tablet, or brag about myself at every chance, I thought with pride. I was no millennial D. I breathed in the damp, cool forest air, craned my neck to look upward at the sun filtering through the long fingers of pine branches, and wondered how anyone could prefer playing video games to being outside.

Answer 1

Sentence D best uses sensory langauge to describe the setting.

In writing, sensory language is used to help readers connect with the scene or action going on in the text. This is mostly done by using descriptive words that appeal to our five senses. In this case, paragraph D uses words and adjectives that appeals to our senses (sight, soung, smell, taste, touch) like "cool forest air", "damp" and filtering sun".

Answer 2

Answer:

D). "I breathed in the damp, cool forest air, craned my neck to look upward at the sun filtering through the long fingers of pine branches, and wondered how anyone could prefer playing video games to being outside."

Explanation:

Sensory language, as the title suggests employs details that invoke the senses of the readers by proposing vivid imagery and description that helps them to affiliate to the situation presented and elicit the feelings that the author desires to evoke.

As per the question, the sentence that best employs the sensory language is displayed through option D which is reflected by the use of words like 'breathed....damp', 'cool air', 'craned my neck', 'sun filtering through ....fingers', etc. that serve to create an image into the minds of the readers that would aid to appeal to their senses and assist them to connect to the situation proposed. Therefore, they would induce the desired response. Thus, option D is the correct answer.