Which sentence from A Girl from Yamhill best illustrates the author's use of sensory language? I was not afraid and did not know that other children were tucked in bed and kissed good night by parents not too tired to make an extra trip up a flight of stairs after a hard day’s work.
What I see excites me and makes me indignant. Proud to be the bearer of astonishing news, I run back. "Daddy! There’s a tree in the sitting room!"
She hands it to him, and as he leans down to take it, she says, "I’ll be so glad when this war is over and we can have some decent bread again."
Mother and I stand on the weathered and warped back steps looking up at my father, who sits, tall and handsome in work clothes, astride a chestnut horse.