Question

Which three sentences in this excerpt from "A Dissertation Upon a Roast Pig" by Charles Lamb use sensory details?

Answer 1

Answer:

C: While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odour assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced.

D: A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip.

E: Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted—crackling! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig.

Explanation:

Sensory details are those feelings about or involving the five senses which writers employ to write their work. These five senses may be the sense of taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound.

In the given sentences, the three options that use the sensory details are options C, D, and E.

Sentence C uses the sense of smell shown in the line "an odor assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced".

Sentence D uses the sense of sight which made the "moistening of the nether lip".

And sentence E shows the sense of taste when "he tasted" the skin of the roasted pig.

Thus, the correct answers are options C, D, and E.