What is the effect of a short, simple sentence after several long sentences?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. It creates emphasis or tension
- Step 1: A sudden short sentence draws attention to the idea it carries.
Answer
It creates emphasis or tension.
Why not the others: It slows down the pace of the passage considerably, It adds humour to a serious scene and It confuses the reader about the sequence of events don't fit.
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