Read the excerpt from "The Scarlet Ibis." The lightning was near now, and from fear he walked so
close behind me he kept stepping on my heels. The faster |
walked, the faster he walked, so I began to run. The rain
was coming, roaring through the pines, and then, like a
bursting Roman candle, a gum tree ahead of us was
shattered by a bolt of lightning. When the deafening peal of
thunder had died, and in the moment before the rain
arrived, I heard Doodle, who had fallen behind, cry out,
"Brother, Brother, don't leave me! Don't leave me!"
The imagery in this excerpt most reflects
the sense of sight to emphasize the fear that Doodle
was feeling
the sense of sight to emphasize how difficult it was for
the boys to see
the sense of sound to emphasize the frustration of the
narrator.
the sense of sound to emphasize the intense volume of
the storm.