What element of literary nonsense is present in the following excerpt from Carl Sandburg's "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and
Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat"? 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. using only imaginary animals and places combining imaginary animals and real places writing by only using sound devices eliminating all sound devices from writing NextReset
Literary nonsense refers to a categorization of literature that balances elements that make sense with some that do not.
In this excerpt, Sandburg combines real places like Massachusetts, Soth Hadley and Northampton with the flongboo, an imaginary animal that has a yellow torch for a tail.
The correct answer is B indeed. It is an example of plain folks because the speaker appeals to the citizens of his town, and to the knowledge that he shares with the other members of the community. This strategy is quite basic, as shown by this example, because the author makes a claim that most people would agree with, without actually providing evidence or a series of logical arguments.
