Question

When I was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, I’d listen toward the hall: Daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and Mother downstairs was frying the bacon. They would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. My father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers back. … I drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it – I know it was "The Merry Widow." The difference was, their song almost floated with laughter: how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the Victrola were only slowly being wound up. They kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where I was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes.

The literary device used in the above excerpt best establishes which of the following?

A. sense of place and commentary
B. sense of place and immediacy
C. sense of immediacy and culture
D. sense of immediacy and existentialism

Answer 1

your answer would be b,

Answer 2

B. sense of place and immediacy

Step-by-step explanation:

These are the two elements that are best established in this excerpt. The sense of place is developed throughout this passage as the author describes the setting carefully and in a detailed way. Moreover, the sense of immediacy is also highlighted as the author describes the scene in a way that allows the reader to picture the scene in real life in his or her head.