The example of sensory language from the excerpt is "he came naked, by night, alone and very hungry." This phrase evokes a vivid image and engages the senses, particularly visual and emotional, by describing the character's state and circumstances.
Read this excerpt from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.
"Keep him!" she gasped. "He came naked, by night, alone and very hungry; yet he was not afraid! Look, he has pushed one of my babes to one side already. And that lame butcher would have killed him, and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge! Keep him? Assuredly I will keep him. Lie still, little frog. O thou Mowgli – for Mowgli the Frog I will call thee – the time will come when thou wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee."
Which of these details from the excerpt is an example of sensory language?
he came naked, by night, alone and very hungry;
and yet he was not afraid!
Assuredly I will keep him.
hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee.
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