Question

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.”

It's all in California, it's all a sea, I swim out of it in afternoons of sun hot meditation in my jeans with head on handkerchief on brakeman’s lantern or (if not working) on books, I look up at blue sky of perfect lost purity and feel the warp of wood of old America beneath me

Which best describes how Kerouac creates rhythm in this excerpt?
He uses repetition.
He uses made-up words.
He uses line breaks.
He uses descriptive language.

Answer 1

He uses repetition — repeated words and phrases (e.g., "It's all... it's all," repeated prepositions like "in" and "on") create the flowing, rhythmic cadence.