English, 27.04.2021 03:50 SavannahP04

Which of the following excerpts from The Things They Carried provides the best example of zeugma? A) You win some, you lose some, said Mitchell Sanders, and sometimes you settle for a rain check. It was a tired line and no one laughed.

B) Some carried white phosphorus grenades. They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

C) Mostly he felt pleased to be alive. He liked the smell of the New Testament under his cheek, the leather and ink and paper and glue, whatever the chemicals were.

D) They would squint into the dense, oppressive sunlight.

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