Question

What is the effect of this compound-complex sentence in the essay?
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it; but the teller of the comic story tells you beforehand that it is one of the funniest things he has ever heard, then tells it with eager delight, and is the first person to laugh when he gets through.
It creates suspense and anticipation.
BIt incorporates sensory details.
C. It makes the description fluent yet stirring.
D. It presents multiple details in relation to each other.

Answer 1

I did not have enoug space to put a and b on the answers

Answer 2

How To Tell A Story
from How Tell a Story and Others by Mark Twain

I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be
told, for I have been almost daily in the company of the most expert story-tellers for many years.

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind—the humorous. I will talk mainly about that
one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous
story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the
matter.

The humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases,
and arrive nowhere in particular; but the comic and witty stories must be brief and end with a point. The
humorous story bubbles gently along, the others burst.

The humorous story is strictly a work of art—high and delicate art—and only an artist can tell it; but no
art is necessary in telling the comic and the witty story; anybody can do it. The art of telling a humorous
story—understand, I mean by word of mouth, not print—was created in America, and has remained at
home.

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly
suspects that there is anything funny about it; but the teller of the comic story tells you beforehand that
it is one of the funniest things he has ever heard, then tells it with eager delight, and is the first person
to laugh when he gets through. And sometimes, if he has had good success, he is so glad and happy that
he will repeat the "nub" of it and glance around from face to face, collecting applause, and then repeat
it again. It is a pathetic thing to see.

Very often, of course, the rambling and disjointed humorous story finishes with a nub, point, snapper, or
whatever you like to call it. Then the listener must be alert, for in many cases the teller will divert
attention from that nub by dropping it in a carefully casual and indifferent way, with the pretence that
he does not know it is a nub.

Answer 3

@shifuyanli

Answer 4

what do you think?

Answer 5

@cole1117

Answer 6

A

Answer 7

nope not A

Answer 8

what does it incorporate

Answer 9

hmmmm... D?

Answer 10

nope

Answer 11

sensory details

Answer 12

yes! B