Question

select the correct text in the passage.
which of these excerpts from carl sandburgs \three boys with jugs of molasses and secret ambitions\ uses repetition?

1. and then because their secret ambition began to hurt them they all stood with hands on each others shoulders and sang the mexico joe song.
2. and when they jumped up and ran out of the potato rows, mr. sniggers thought they were boys playing tricks.
3. they went to the railroad stations and bought tickets for the fast trains and the slow trains and even the trains that back up and run backward instead of where they start to go.
4. one morning while they were waiting to take an express train on the early ohio & southwestern they sat near the roots of a big potato plant under the big green leaves.
5. a big drop of paris green spattered down and fell onto the heads and shoulders of all three, eeta peeca pie, meeny miney and miney mo.

Explanation:

Repetition involves repeating words, phrases, or structures for effect. Excerpt 3 repeats the phrase "and the trains" to list different train types, creating a repetitive structure. Excerpt 5 repeats the rhyming, parallel naming structure of the boys' chants, which is also repetition, but excerpt 3 has clear structural repetition of a phrase within the sentence.

Answer:

1. They went to the railroad stations and bought tickets for the fast trains and the slow trains and even the trains that back up and run backward instead of where they start to go.