Reread the portion of "through the tunnel" that describes jerrys journey through the tunnel. how does the word choice create a sense? your response should be at least 150 words

The word choices for "Through The Tunnel" by Doris Lessing adds a sense of suspense at the climax of the story. The author  selected these words in an attempt to describe the feeling of being underwater, inside a dark tunnel. The author expresses the urgency of where Jerry is by using words that described how dark it was in the tunnel and water.

We first know what the tunnel and the water looks like ("He was in a small rock-bound hole filled with yellowish-gray water" and immediately after, how it felt ("The roof  was sharp and pained his back", "it felt slimy as well as sharp"). The author even describes how Jerry felt, and how taxing the journey was on his body ("His head  was swelling, his lungs cracking"). This, combined with Jerry's countdown of him holding this breath, expressed the limited time Jerry had before he could no longer hold his breath to provide an overall exciting but extreme sense of danger.

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.