Use the drop-down menus to decide which kind of descriptive language each passage from the essay uses. "The kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food" "At the end of the meal, my father leaned back and belched loudly" "It was a miniskirt in beige tweed." "Tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges."
✔ sensory detailprecise languagefigurative language
sensory detail✔ precise languagefigurative language
sensory detailprecise language✔ figurative language
Based on the fact that Amy Tan uses negative descriptions about her family’s food, how does she seem to feel about the food?
What do the precise words tell you about the different people’s reactions to the fish?
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