Question

What are some sensory images used in the first few paragraphs of the scarlet ibis?

Answer 1

What are some sensory images used in the first few paragraphs of "The Scarlet Ibis"?

Answer: "The Scarlet Ibis" is a short story written by novelist James Hurst. The writer uses a lot of color, the sounds and smells in the first few paragraphs to describe the yard and house with some sensory images.

Explanation: Hurst describes visually the "gleaming white" of the house, the "pale fence across the yard", the "green draped parlor", the weeds that "grew rank amid purple phlox", the "rotting brown magnolia petals".  

Hurst uses sound to talk about the way birds sounded as a child and how they sound now that the tree is bigger and leafier, "now if an oriole sings in the elm, its song seems to die up in the leaves". The graveyard flowers speak, "softly the names of our dead".

He also uses smell to talk about the graveyard's flowers smell, "drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house".

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