To which of the senses does the author appeal in describing old lady chong’s age? touch smell hearing taste

The answer is: smell

In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, when the age of Old Lady Chong, the piano teacher's mother, is being describe, the author uses two similes she smells "like a baby that done something in his pants” and has skin "like an old peach" appealing to the smell sense.

Smell.

Explanation:

Amy Tan's Two Kinds tells the story of Jing-mei and her life, brought up to be a prodigy of any talent. But the conflict arise from her own want to assert and understand her identity, trying to fit into the American culture while her mother's trying to make her become a "prodigy".

Old Lady Chong is the mother of Old Chong or Mr. Chong, the piano teacher from the first floor of the apartment building that Jing-mei and her family lives. And she is mentioned just once in the story when Jing-mei went to the piano lesson. She reveals she "met Old Lady Chong once, and that was enough. She had a peculiar smell, like a baby that had done  something in its pants". Thus, the author uses the sense of smell in describing the old lady's age.

byron utilizes literary techniques to emphisize the illustration of the woman in the poem “she walks in beauty”.

for instance, he uses alliteration to use repetitive consonant sounds when he is writing a word at the beginning of a phrase. he uses personification to give personality to a thing or action. he uses imagery when he is describing the woman. we also can find metaphors to better compare a moment.

these techniques add to the reader’s experience of beauty when the author describes the woman physical beauty and the purity of her mind, using imagery.  

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