The Ransom of Red Chief Group
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What are some examples of imagery in this short story by O. Henry?
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amgreen Teacher
Middle SchoolPosted by amgreen on Tuesday October 13, 2009 at 9:01 PMIn my classroom, I teach my students that Imagery is a fancy word for Sensory Details, or using these senses: sight, smell, taste, touch/feel, and hearing. Text that adds specific details is the key.
...About two miles from Summit was a little mountain, covered with a dense cedar brake.
...That boy put up a fight like a welter-weight cinnamon bear; but, at last, we got him down in the bottom of the buggy and drove away. We took him up to the cave and I hitched the horse in the cedar brake. After dark I drove the buggy to the little village, three miles away, where we had hired it, and walked back to the mountain.
...Bill was pasting court-plaster over the scratches and bruises on his features. There was a burning behind the big rock at the entrance of the cave, and the boy was watching a pot of boiling coffee, with two buzzard tailfeathers stuck in his red hair
...Then we had supper; and he filled his mouth full of bacon and bread and gravy, and began to talk.
...Every few minutes he would remember that he was a pesky redskin, and pick up his stick rifle and tiptoe to the mouth of the cave to rubber for the scouts of the hated paleface.
and so on and so on. Hope this helps you!
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