AQA GCSE English Language · 8700
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GCSE English Language · key term
Language that evokes sight, sound, smell, taste or touch.
Used by AQA and Edexcel
Paper 2
Paper 2
Language that evokes sensory experience, such as a sight, smell, sound, taste or physical sensation.
Sensory imagery makes the institution unpleasant to imagine. The smell combines cleaning products with ‘latrines’, and Orwell ends the description with ‘prisonish’. That word turns a physical impression into a judgement about the place: shelter feels like imprisonment.
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