The mangled sinews of
commerce in so much of
the Southland only added to
the despair.
Railroad tracks torn apart.
Fields fallow, hardened, and
barren.
Bridges that once defied the
physics of uncrossable
rivers destroyed.
So many Southern cities
had been reduced to
smoldering rubble.
Use the passage to
answer the question.
What effect does the
use of short sentences
in this excerpt have on
the reader?
It gives the
reader an idea
of how great the
South was
before the war
and how much it
lost.
It suggests that
only a few harsh
words are
needed to
describe the
destruction
done to the
South.
It gives the
reader a great
sense of sympathy for the southerns after the war