Question

As the cake baked, the house filled with the sweet scent of vanilla and sugar.

The sentence above uses:
A. sensory detail
B. dialogue
C. character
D. a claim

Answer 1

The answer is A sensory detail, because smell is one of your five senses and it is giving a detail of how the house smelled.

Answer 2

Answer: A) Sensory detail.

Explanation: when writing, the use of sensory details consists in the use of descriptions in order to evoke the senses of the reader and to create a mental picture. In the given sentence we can see a clear example of the use of sensory detail when describing the scent of the cake in the oven, the phrase "the sweet scent of vanilla and sugar" evokes the reader's sense of smell.