Question

Read this passage from The Phantom Tollbooth.

The sky became quite gray and, along with it, the whole countryside seemed to lose its color and assume the same monotonous tone. Everything was quiet, and even the air hung heavily. The birds sang only gray songs and the road wound back and forth in an endless series of climbing curves.

What literary device does the author use to make the setting drearier?

a homophone
an idiom
onomatopoeia
a pun

Answer 1

Answer:

I THINK THE ANSWER IS A PUN

Explanation:

BECAUSE THERE IS NO HOMOPHONES

THERE ARE NO IDIOMS

NOT ONOMATOPOEIA

BUT THERE IS A PUN IN EVERY SENTENCE

Answer 2

Answer:

Pun

Explanation:

Because there is no homophones.

There are no idioms.

Not onomatopoeia.

But there is a Puj in each line