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what technique most contributes to the pace of the following excerpt? "There was no moon. What a night! I was frightened, horribly frightened in these narrow paths, between two rows of graves. Graves! graves! graves! nothing but graves! A. Repetition of words B. long descriptive phrases C. long drawn-out sentences D. None of the above

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the answer is A: repetition of words. I know this because I had the same questions with the same answers and I got it right.

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Answer: A Repetition of words

Graves! Graves! etc... this is jolting the reader forward realizing the emphasis and terribleness of what is going on.
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