Which line contains tactile imagery involving a hand on a cane?

• A. A ginger cat, very tall and thin streaked glass, flashing with sunlight.
• B. He was shaggy, thick fellow his coat was greasy about the lapels and pockets, and his hand splayed over the cane's crook with a futile sort of clinging.
• C. Leaves were green and stirring, berries, luster -glossed.
• D. Strong melodious songs crackling splinters of glass and dried putty.

Answer: (B)

Tactile imagery is at play here, conveying touch and texture. The line that describes a hand splayed over the cane’s crook gives you a concrete sense of contact—the palm and fingers resting on the wood, the grip, the feel of the crook’s curve. That direct reference to touch is what makes it tactile imagery.

The other lines lean on visual or auditory details: a ginger cat described with sunlight passing over it, leaves and berries described by sight, and melodious sounds described as crackling glass and putty. Those evoke what things look or sound like, not what they feel like to touch, so they don’t illustrate tactile imagery in the same way.