Verb
evoke a reaction, response, or emotion
Source: WordNetHuman nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere. Maurice Saatchi
this writer strikes a chord with young women Source: Internet
The storyteller touched a chord Source: Internet