What element of literary nonsense is present in this excerpt from "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat" by Carl Sandburg?

He was from Massachusetts, born near Chappaquidwingspan, 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

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Curry

12 August, 22:18

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Teagan Manning · Answer 1

The element of literary nonsense is present in the excerpt by using only imaginary animals and places. The correct answer is A.