Read the following passage from "The War Prayer":

With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and

envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and

brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for

the flag, or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths.

What device does Twain use to support the mood of this passage?

A. Polyptoton

B. Polysyndeton

C. Synecdoche

D. Parallelism

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Annabel Buckley

2 April, 17:32

Read the following passage from "The War Prayer":

With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and

envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and

brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for

the flag, or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths.

What device does Twain use to support the mood of this passage?

A. Polyptoton

B. Polysyndeton

C. Synecdoche

D. Parallelism

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Warren Walsh · Answer 1

The passage contains the device

B. Polysyndeton

Explanation:

This obscure literary device here is used masterfully to contain the lines of this passage into a single, seemingly rambling sentence that goes on longer than it normally would due to the use of connections that could have been removed easily from here.

The choice of keeping in the connections here shows that the author wanted the lines to have a seeming rambling quality to them as they go on and on without stopping by the devices that could be used here.