What element of literary nonsense is present in the following excerpt from carl sandburg's "how the animals lost their tails and got them back traveling from philadelphia to medicine hat"? he was from massachusetts, born near chappaquiddick, 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.

The element of the literary absurd that is present in the passage is the combination of imaginary animals and real places.

Explanation:

In literature, nonsense is a literary technique that consists of introducing elements without coherence into a predictable logical framework, but incompatible with the new element. This type of literature presents nonsensical facts; with nonconformity with the laws of coherence and logic. In the passage shown above, the nonsense is characterized by the presence of the combination of imaginary animals and real places

the anecdote makes readers feel sorry for the man’s lack of heritage, then reminds readers that the man has an equally valuable heritage.

different routes can lead to sammy to different places, with different roads.   if you check a map, you can see the routes.   try to make connections of the places and count how many there are.   hope this : )