Read the excerpt from Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye.For the first time, on the road to Tampico,I felt the life sliding out of me,a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.

The excerpt compares the speaker’s life to “a drum” that becomes “harder and harder to hear.” Hearing and a drum are associated with sound, so the sense is sound. The correct choice is C, sound.

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