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? "of my own thoughts it is folly to speak. swooning, i staggered to the opposite wall. for one instant the party upon the stairs remained motionless, through extremity of terror and of awe. in the next, a dozen stout arms were toiling at the wall. it fell bodily."

Answer 1

The phrases, fragments, and punctuations used in the sentence support us to determine the mood of the text and the pacing of the passage which can be characterized as moderate.

What is Punctuation?

Punctuation may be defined as those marks and symbols which are operated in writing to distinct sentences and their elements and to elucidate meaning in a more clear sense. Some of the examples are comma, full stop, semi colon, exclamatory, etc.

The above passage uses a good number of commas in between the text, which slightly reduces the pace of the passage. The utilization of exclamatory expressions and their fragments maintains the extreme pace of the passage which is absolutely absent.

Therefore, the passage can be described as an average/moderate level of pace.

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