Which sentence best uses sensory language to describe the setting?A.I had been to a number of beautiful places throughout the country, but none had the attraction for me as the pristine mountains of eastern Tennessee.B.I pleaded my case with passion, my lips trembling and my eyes flashing as I contrasted my adoptive state's assets to my native one's liabilities.C.As I pleaded my case, I imagined the blue haze that hung over the mountains, the breathtaking overlooks, and the smell of the pine-scented air.D.I felt a sinking in my stomach as I contemplated life in a city I no longer knew as my home; I wanted to move to eastern Tennessee.

Select the correct text in the passage.Which sentence in the passage best shows how the setting contributes to the speaker's problem?from Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe     Nothing can describe the confusion of thought which I felt when I sank into the water. Though I swam very well, I could not deliver myself from the waves so as to draw breath, till that wave having driven me, or rather carried me, a vast way on towards the shore, and having spent itself, went back, and left me upon the land almost dry, but half dead with the water I took in. I had so much presence of mind, as well as breath left, that seeing myself nearer the mainland than I expected, I got upon my feet, and endeavored to make on towards the land as fast as I could before another wave should return and take me up again.However, I soon found it was impossible to avoid it; for I saw the sea come after me as high as a great hill, and as furious as an enemy, which I had no means or strength to contend with: my business was to hold my breath, and raise myself upon the water if I could.By swimming, I could preserve my breathing, and pilot myself towards the shore, if possible. My greatest concern now being that the sea, as it would carry me a great way towards the shore when it came on, might not carry me back again with it when it gave back towards the sea.     The wave that came upon me again buried me at once twenty or thirty feet deep in its own body.I could feel myself carried with a mighty force and swiftness towards the shore—a very great way, but I held my breath, and assisted myself to swim still forward with all my might.I was ready to burst with holding my breath, when, as I felt myself rising up, so, to my immediate relief, I found my head and hands shoot out above the surface of the water. Though it was not two seconds of time that I could keep myself so, yet it relieved me greatly, gave me breath, and new courage.I was covered again with water a good while, but not so long but I held it out; and finding the water had spent itself, and began to return, I struck forward against the return of the waves, and felt ground again with my feet.I stood still a few moments to recover breath, and till the waters went from me, and then took to my heels and ran with what strength I had further towards the shore. But neither would this deliver me from the fury of the sea, which came pouring in after me again; and twice more I was lifted up by the waves and carried forward as before, the shore being very flat.     The last time of these two had well-nigh been fatal to me, for the sea having hurried me along as before, landed me, or rather dashed me, against a piece of rock, and that with such force, that it left me senseless, and indeed helpless, as to my own deliverance. The blow taking my side and breast, beat the breath as it were quite out of my body; and had it returned again immediately, I must have been strangled in the water; but I recovered a little before the return of the waves.Seeing I should be covered again with the water, I resolved to hold fast by a piece of the rock, and so to hold my breath, if possible, till the wave went back.Now, as the waves were not so high as at first, being nearer land, I held my hold till the wave abated, and then fetched another run, which brought me so near the shore that the next wave, though it went over me, did not so swallow me up as to carry me away. The next run I took, I got to the mainland, where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from danger and quite out of the reach of the water.

Which of the following sentences best uses language that appeals to the senses?*An ice-cold jealousy spread through Joel, catching him off guard like a freak tidal wave.Ann bounced the ball twice and focused on the basket, then took the shot just as her coach had taught her.The best thing about spring vacation was the cool weather, as the heat of summer was still months off.Eddie hid the pretty valentine deep in his book bag, afraid the other kids would tease him if they saw it

Which sentence uses sensory detail to describe a setting?A."Finally I stood still, listening to the barely audible whoosh-whoosh-whoosh from the propellers, watching small birds flitting over the scrub and cacti in the last of the light."B."I was pedaling my 18-speed towards electricity, or towards an understanding of it, anyway."C."So I decided to figure out how this 35-year-old writer-cyclist-student-teacher's daily caffeine intake affected the glaciers, the polar bears and the climate."D."There were a bunch of facts about the power plant, about how much coal it goes through and where it comes from and how it all turns into electricity."

Sensory language is language (words and details) used by writers to appeal the reader’s senses (sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell). Which of the following lines from Robert Frost's poems use sensory language?Select one:a.I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.b.My little horse must think it queer   To stop without a farmhouse near. c.The only other sound’s the sweep   Of easy wind and downy flake.d.Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

Read the excerpt from the passage.I know not how it was but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I looked upon the scene before me; upon the mere house, and the simple landscape—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like windows, upon a few rank marsh plants, and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation.How does the author's word choice evoke a sense of place? A. The author's word choice suggests that the House of Usher is old. B. The author's word choice suggests that the House of Usher is grotesque. C. The author's word choice suggests that the House of Usher is desolate. D. The author's word choice suggests that the House of Usher is terrifying.