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English, 24.07.2020 01:01, yeicooyola3

Read this excerpt and answer the question. With a start, we awoke and rushed to the window yet again. We had believed her, if only for an instant. But there was nothing outside but darkness. We returned to our places, shame in our souls but fear gnawing at us nevertheless. As she went on howling, she was struck again. Only with great difficulty did we succeed in quieting her down. Around eleven o’clock, the train began to move again. We pressed against the windows. The convoy was rolling slowly. A quarter of an hour later, it began to slow down even more. Through the windows, we saw barbed wire; we understood that this was the camp. Compare the sentence structures in the two paragraphs from the excerpt of Night. What effect does the author achieve by varying sentence complexity? The creation of simple sentences grabs the reader’s attention. By creating varying sentence structures, the dynamic qualities of the events are revealed. The creation of varying sentences serves to reinforce the idea that the prisoners are learning to accept their situation. By creating shorter sentences, the author emphasizes the meaning of the events and builds a foreboding tension.

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