How does the narrator’s use of alliteration in this phrase from paragraph 3 affect the passage? …which doesn't inspire copious amounts of confidence. it makes clear to the reader that the narrator is making an ironic understatement. it the reader imagine the ease and assurance felt by other divers. it gives the reader a sense of how unsteady the diving platform is. it makes clear to the reader that the narrator is not actually nervous.

Which two words are nonsense words in this excerpt from carl sandburg's "how the animals lost their tails and got them back traveling from philadelphia to medicine rock"? it was easy enough for the rabbit who has long ears and no tail at all except a white thumb of cotton. but it was hard for the yellow flongboo who at night lights up his house in a hollow tree with his fire yellow torch of a tail. it is hard for the yellow flongboo to lose his tail because it lights up his way when he sneaks at night on the prairie, sneaking up on the flangwayers, the hippers and hangjasts, so good to eat.