Manhattan Tropics by Guillermo Cotto-Thorner Nueva York is the city of commotion and mobility. The noise can be so intense that it numbs the senses, and the person who lives in this environment for a long time loses the notion of silence. The torrent of pedestrians and vehicles is endless—streetcars, buses, automobiles, horse-carts, trucks, trains, bicycles, motorcycles, airplanes and wheelbarrows; fire engines, with their high powered motors and ear-splitting sirens; the shouts of children and adults; the buzz of conversation of the human swarm on the sidewalks; guffaws, curses, cries; the explosion of a backfiring engine; wheels that bump over the rails and rend all tranquility; the spinning of propellers boring thunderously through space; noise, noise, NOISE: New York. Mankind has won a victory over the horizontal. New York aims overhead, is in perpetual pugilism with space. From the hard rock of Manhattan, man has shot up to conquer the clouds. Strapping buildings, as tall and long as the jíbaro’s hope, dotted symmetrically with windows and bordered with a little aesthetic detail to silence the critics—austere, linear, devastating. In summer, they give the impression of macabre furnaces where eyelashes burn, bodies melt down and all feeling contorts and loses its sense. Excerpt from "Manhattan Tropics" by Guillermo Cotto-Thorner is being reprinted with permission from the publisher (©Arte Público Press - University of Houston) Question Use the passage to answer the question. Which excerpt from the passage includes kinesthetic imagery? Select the two correct answers. (1 point) Responses "The person who lives in this environment for a long time loses the notion of silence." "The person who lives in this environment for a long time loses the notion of silence." "Wheels that bump over the rails and rend all tranquility; the spinning of propellers boring thunderously through space." "Wheels that bump over the rails and rend all tranquility; the spinning of propellers boring thunderously through space." "They give the impression of macabre furnaces where . . . all feeling contorts and loses its sense." "They give the impression of macabre furnaces where . . . all feeling contorts and loses its sense." "Strapping buildings, as tall and long as the jíbaro’s hope, dotted symmetrically with windows." "Strapping buildings, as tall and long as the jíbaro’s hope, dotted symmetrically with windows." "The shouts of children and adults; the buzz of conversation of the human swarm on the sidewalks."
The correct answers are:
- "Wheels that bump over the rails and rend all tranquility; the spinning of propellers boring thunderously through space."
- "They give the impression of macabre furnaces where . . . all feeling contorts and loses its sense."