Question

She swore she felt the earth drop—like a hitch in an elevator—several miles from her mother’s house. She thought of all those bedlinens agitated, curled, heaped on top of her mother, sunk along with everything else, beams, roof tiles, the acrylic nails her mom wore, the senselessness of waste.

Use the passage to answer the question.

The author’s use of words like drop and agitated denote which type of literary device, which conveys the feeling of movement and action?

visual imagery
kinesthetic imagery
auditory imagery
tactile imagery

Answer 1

Kinesthetic imagery.

These words emphasize motion and movement (the feeling of dropping, things agitated and heaped), rather than sight, sound, or touch.