Question

The use of phrases, fragments, and punctuation can affect the pace and mood of a text. How would you describe the pace of the following passage?. . \"For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence.\". . . A. Fast. . B. Slow. . C. Both fast and slow. . D. Average

Answer 1

The correct answer should be B. Slow

The sentences are relatively long with a lot of commas and all of that slows the tempo down.

Answer 2

The correct answer is slow because the text has many commas in spite of the fact that the sentences are long.

The pace of a text consists on the speed of the story, it is not the speed of meaning the speed at which the story is told. There are some elements that can affect the pace and mood of a text such as phrases, fragments, punctuation, the length of the scenes, among other things.

In this case, it is evident how punctuation affects the pace of the text since the sentences are long with a lot of commas that are slowing the speed of the text.