1. Although the narrator “looks into the distance,” the images are primarily auditory. What are the auditory images in the passage? What mood do these images create?
The auditory images Edna hears in this passage are “her father’s voice and her sister Margaret’s”, “the barking of an old dog”, “The spurs of the cavalry officer” clanging, and “the hum of bees.” The familiar sounds heard in the passage creates a tranquil mood that soothes Edna’s fear.
2. The last sentence of this passage contains an olfactory image (the musky odor of pinks filled the air). What effect does the use of an olfactory image, after a series of auditory images, have on the reader?
The shift from auditory to olfactory strengthens the image, by building Edna’s world. As a reader, I enter the world of the book with my own presuppositions, never with a tabula rasa towards the scenes encountered. Through the auditory imagery, I know what it sounds like in her world, but through the “musky odor” of the blossoming pinks, I also know now what it smells like. Imagery can shift preconceived notions the reader has, and it is important to be specific.…show more content… Write a paragraph in which you create a scene through auditory imagery. The purpose of your paragraph is to create a calm, peaceful mood. Use one olfactory image to enhance the mood created by auditory imagery.
The steady beat of the buckskin’s hooves against the sun-baked ground lulled his exhausted brain. A kit fox yipped to the darkening sky, a dove called its young back to the nest in the saguaro, whose blossoms emitted a pale, cloying scent as they closed for the
