The characters' voices showed understatement and satire. Readers must use their imaginations and follow the stage directions to imagine the characters' movements and characteristics. The reader may misinterpret the tone depending on their study of the stage instructions. Hearing the characters' tones and pitches clarified understatement and satire.
Explanation:
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If whipped is not a part of the underlined sentence, we can rule out a verb, leaving "through the massive trees" which is an adjective phase, as it is describing the "massive" trees.
