Which line conveys tactile imagery with a soft shape inside the hard bodies?

• A. Soft shape inside the hard bodies.
• B. A ginger cat, very tall and thin streaked glass, flashing with sunlight.
• C. Rolling rumble and crash.
• D. What is poetry? Who knows? Not a rose, but a scent of a rose.

Answer: (A)

Tactile imagery is about how things feel to the touch. This line foregrounds texture by naming something soft inside hard bodies, creating a vivid sense of contrast between softness and hardness. That internal, touchable sensation invites the reader to imagine a gentle, yielding form nestled within rigid outer shapes, which is exactly the tactile effect the line aims for. The other lines rely on sight, sound, or smell rather than touch, so they don’t evoke the same tactile experience.