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5. Underline the sense impressions in the essay.

Can you find images related to all five senses?

Write five images below that evoke each of the

senses.

a. sight
b. hearing

c. smell

d. touch

e. taste

Descriptive Essay 2

An unusual museum exhibit inspired this essay. Notice how the writer
moves the reader through the exhibit.

Juke Joint
I hear a rising laugh, like notes played on a piano, as

I approach the doorway marked “Little Grocery.” By day,

the Little Grocery sold milk, bread, cereal, and

cigarettes—the stuff of everyday life. At night, under a

pungent haze of smoke, the jukebox played “Slip Away” or
“Mr. Big Stuff” to the clink of bottles of illegal

liquor. But I am not worried about a police raid, for I

am in the Tubman African American Museum, looking at

artist Willie Little’s re-creation of his father’s North

Carolina juke joint. The setting, the music, and the