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Beat Movement Spontaneous Prose

Question 13 • ELA 11B-CR

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.”I'd take walks up Harrison and the boomcrash of truck traffic towards the glorious girders of the Oakland Bay Bridge that you could see after climbing Harrison Hill a little like radar machine of eternity in the sky, huge, in the blue, by pure clouds crossed, gulls, idiot cars streaking to destinations on its undinal boom across shmoshwaters flocked up by winds and news of San Rafael storms and flash boats.The syntax of the excerpt helps to create a feeling of

Answer
A
mystery.
B
movement.
C
disappointment.
D
tranquility.

Explanation

The sentence strings together active images and sounds: the speaker takes walks, trucks boom and crash, cars streak, clouds cross, and winds stir the water. These rapidly changing details make the scene feel energetic and constantly in motion. The syntax therefore creates a feeling of movement, not tranquility or disappointment.

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