Question

pick out at least ten sentences from the myth "the gorgon's head"that shows sensory image.identify the senses to which these statements appeal

Answer 1

The following sentences have tactile (touch) imagery:

1. The teeth of the Gorgons were terribly long tusks; of brass; and their bodies were all over scales, which, if not iron, their hands were made were something as hard and impenetrable.
2. For the worst thing about these abominable Gorgons was, that, if once a poor mortal fixed his eyes full upon one of their faces, he was certain, that very instant, to be changed from warm flesh and blood into cold and lifeless stone!
3. Sometimes, he and Quicksilver approached a cloud, that, at a distance, looked as if it were made of fleecy silver; although, when they plunged into it, they found themselves chilled and moistened with gray mist.

The following sentences have visual (vision) imagery:

1. They had wings, too, and exceedingly splendid ones, I can assure you; for every feather in them was pure, bright, glittering, burnished gold, and they looked very dazzlingly, no doubt, when the Gorgons were flying about in the sunshine.
2. For, though the eye shone and glistened like a star, as Scarecrow held it out, yet the Gray Women caught not the least glimpse of its light, and were all three in utter darkness, from too impatient a desire to see.
3. The bravest sights were the meteors, that gleamed suddenly out, as if a bonfire had been kindled in the sky, and made the moonshine pale for as much as a hundred miles around them.

 The following sentences have auditory (hearing) imagery:

1. They were now come to a very wild and desert place, overgrown with shaggy bushes, and so silent and solitary that nobody seemed ever to have dwelt or journeyed there.
2. "Whose garment is this," inquired Perseus, "that keeps rustling close beside me, in the breeze?"
3. It was, indeed, necessary to take flight; for Perseus had not done the deed so quietly, but that the clash of his sword, and the hissing of the snakes, and the thump of Medusa's head as it tumbled upon the sea-beaten sand, awoke the other two monsters.
4. "Behold it, then!" cried Perseus, in a voice like the blast of a trumpet.