What element of literary nonsense is present in the following excerpt from carl sandburg's "how the animals lost their tails and got them back traveling from philadelphia to medicine hat"? he was from massachusetts, born near chappaquiddick, this old flongboo, and he lived there in a horse chestnut tree six feet thick halfway between south hadley and northampton. and at night, before he lost his tail, he lighted up the big hollow cave inside the horse chestnut tree with his yellow torch of a tail.

The element of the literary absurd that is present in the passage is the combination of imaginary animals and real places.

Explanation:

In literature, nonsense is a literary technique that consists of introducing elements without coherence into a predictable logical framework, but incompatible with the new element. This type of literature presents nonsensical facts; with nonconformity with the laws of coherence and logic. In the passage shown above, the nonsense is characterized by the presence of the combination of imaginary animals and real places

one thousand and one nights, also known as arabian nights is a collection of stories whose basic structure is that of embedded narrative. this technique refers to a main story which works as the common frame - or framing narrative - for the other stories, and then this series of stories which are connected to the main one. this technique can also be referred to as a story within a story. the stories stem from the original tale, some begin and end on their own, some are connected to the previous or following one, by means of questions that are answered in the subsequent tale, or characters which reappear.