Read the following selection from "The Things They Carried." This sentence occurs just after Lee Strunk comes back out of the tunnel. Then answer the question below.
Lee Strunk made a funny ghost sound, a kind of moaning, yet very happy, and right then, when Strunk made that high happy moaning sound, when he went Ahhooooo, right then Ted Lavender
was shot in the head on his way back from peeing.
A. Identify the literary device O'Brien is using by placing these two events so closely together.
B. How might the use of this literary device support the central idea of the story?
