Question

Sinking and Swaddled
by Beth Gilstrap

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.



"Sinking and Swaddled" from Deadheading and Other Stories © Beth Gilstrap. Published by Red Hen Press, 2021.

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

Responses

visual imagery
visual imagery - no response given

auditory imagery
auditory imagery - no response given

kinesthetic imagery
kinesthetic imagery - no response given

tactile imagery

Answer 1

Kinesthetic imagery — words like "drop" and "agitated" evoke motion and physical movement.