Read the excerpt from The Awakoning. The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremnor down Mrs.
Pontelier's spinal column. It was not the first time she had heard an artist at the piano. Perhaps it was the first
time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding truth.
She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination. She
waited in vain. She saw no pictures of solitude, of hope, of longing, or of despair. But the very passions
themselves were aroused within her soul, swaying it, lashing it, as the waves daily beat upon her splendid
body. She trembled, she was choking, and the tears blinded her.
Which best describes one element of the literary device "epiphany as evidenced in this excerpt?
O powerful, vivid emotion
O a lack of emotion
O a reference to nature
O the resolution of a problem