Sensory Language

Following the previous English tasks here lies another that has been completed. In this case the undertaking is about learning and using sensory language. Which is the writing and using language that connects with our "five" senses. Through writing this piece of text, we are challenged with creating a paragraph without using words such as saw, heard, smelled, tasted and felt.

"Task: Explore sensory language

Write a short paragraph describing a scene (real or imaginary) in first person (using the word I) using sensory language that connects to each of the 5 senses. Try NOT to use the words: saw, heard, smelled, tasted, felt"

The paragraph that I have written dwells upon my feelings after completing something that I enjoy. Though it is about reading a book, I also sense these feelings when I finish a series that I have grown to love. The book that is "mentioned" in this text is not a novel but instead is type of "comic" per se. I've always enjoyed reading Mangas, Manhwas and Manhuas and as such when I find one that I connect with this would usually be how I feel when it ends.

"The thumps became faster as the pages flickered through. With for which it seemed like the action was taking place, the lines that separated disappeared with a blur. I was in, inside. Watching how the scene was playing, swords ringing, guns firing. Lingering clouds of powder, rough and bitter, made me bury my snout under a cloth. Upon reaching the summit, waves of fires, heat and cold surged through the body. The quake became inevitable; finally there, the conclusion to it all. As the last piece of paper slipped between my fingers, feelings of completion overcame me. However, so long as I remember the joy of reading, the dread dwelled around, why? Emptiness once more..."