The very first chords which mademoiselle reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down mrs. pontellier'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?

Powerful, vivid emotion.

Explanation:

Epiphany is described as the moment on which you realize something in an unexpected way, it is something that happens all of a sudden and makes you feel conscious. In the text, this is clearly described by the feelings the person is going through, as the sensations that talk about  perceiving the situation in a really deep way such as  tears,  choking,  trembling and joy of the soul.

voracity is the noun corresponding to the adjective voracious, which means (1) eager to consume a great amount of food, or (2) marked by an insatiable appetite. veracity is far more common than the rare voracity, so the latter is sometimes used in place of the former.

in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,