Read the excerpt from "Fern" in
Cane.

And then she sang, brokenly. A Jewish cantor singing
with a broken voice. A child's voice, uncertain, or an old
man's. Dusk hid her; I could only hear her song. It
seemed to me as though she were pounding her head in
anguish upon the ground. I rushed to her. She fainted in
my arms.


Which stylistic element most creates the mood of
despair in this excerpt?

the repetition of "brokenly" and "broken"

the comparison of a "child's voice" to that of "an old
man's"

the use of commas to create pauses

the use of sentence fragments between complete sentences