Question

What element of literary nonsense is present in this excerpt from "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat" by Carl Sandburg? He was from Massachusetts, born near Chappaquiddick, this old flongboo, and he lived there in a horse chestnut tree six feet thick halfway between South Hadley and Northampton. And at night, before he lost his tail, he lighted up the big hollow cave inside the horse chestnut tree with his yellow torch of a tail.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B.

Step-by-step explanation:

The meaning of literary nonsense is that belongs to a categorization of literature in which there is a balance in elements that have sense with others that do not have sense.

As we can see in the excerpt, the author Sandburg makes a mixture between real places such as Northampton, Massachusetts and Soth Hadley with the flongboo, which represents an invented animal that has a yellow torch in its tail.

Answer 2

The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "B. combining imaginary animals and real places." The element of literary nonsense is present in this excerpt from "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia toMedicine Hat" by Carl Sandburg is that combining imaginary animals and real places
Here are the following choices"
A. using only imaginary animals and places
B. combining imaginary animals and real places
C. writing by only using sound devices
D. eliminating all sound devices from writing