Read the excerpt from "The Railroad Earth." It's all in California, it's all a sea, I swim out of it in afternoons of sun hot meditation in my jeans with head on handkerchief on brakeman's lantern or (if not working) on books, I look up at blue sky of perfect lostpurity and feel the warp of wood of old America beneath me Which best describes how Kerouac creates rhythm in this excerpt?

He uses repetition.

He uses made-up words.

He uses line breaks.

He uses descriptive language.

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Carmen Whitney

23 October, 05:26

Read the excerpt from "The Railroad Earth." It's all in California, it's all a sea, I swim out of it in afternoons of sun hot meditation in my jeans with head on handkerchief on brakeman's lantern or (if not working) on books, I look up at blue sky of perfect lostpurity and feel the warp of wood of old America beneath me Which best describes how Kerouac creates rhythm in this excerpt?

He uses repetition.

He uses made-up words.

He uses line breaks.

He uses descriptive language.

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Adison Klein · Answer 1

The excerpt above is actually taken from "October in the Railroad Earth" which was written by Jack Kerouac. And based on the excerpt above, the one that best describes how the author uses rhythm in this excerpt is that he uses line breaks and the answer would be the third option.