Question

What sense does this excerpt evoke?
"You know that feeling you get when you take a big bite of horseradish or wasabi or whatever, and it feels like your sinuses are closing at the same time as your windpipe, filling your head with trapped, nuclear-hot air that tries to batter its way out through your watering eyes and nostrils? That feeling like steam is about to pour out of your ears like a cartoon character?"

A. Touch
B. Taste
C. Hearing
D. Movement

Answer 1

Taste! I had this same question, tase because reading this passage your are imagining the tase if the hot spicy food in your mouth ect. Hope this helps :)

Answer 2

The sense that the excerpt evokes is the following one:

B. Taste.

Since it describes what it feels like to eat food that goes beyond spicy and also what happens if you eat a lot of it at once, it is certainly about taste, that is, it evokes that sense, making the reader "feel" it in his or her mind. We all have taste in our memory, which makes us able to taste without actually doing it. Descriptions such as the one in the excerpt make it for a good display of what our brain can provide us with when we are reading or simply reminiscing.