Question

Please and thank you ( I have a senior deadline ) "It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant—it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery—and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided. And at that distance, peacefully eating, the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow." In three to five sentences, explain the methods used by the author to create sentence fluency and rhythm in this passage.

Answer 1

The author used fragments, and long sentences with a variety of length and beginnings. He used such methods to create sentence fluency and rhythm in the passage through making the reader pause or 'rest' in between sentences - making emphasis on some lines and deeming it nice to listen to.