Question

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!"

repetition of words
long descriptive phrases
long drawn-out sentences
none of the above

Answer 1

D. none of the above

Answer 2

This excerpt doesn't contain enough 'drawn-out sentences' to attract the eye of the reader. I feel like you would be correct to assume that 'A. Repetition of words' is the right answer. The text repeats 'frightened, horribly frightened' and the word 'graves' to give a ghoulish sense of rhythm.