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
Gil t P bli h d b R d
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?
a. kinesthetic
imagery
b. visual imagery
c. tactile imagery
d. auditory
imagery