The way that authors structure their sentences and use their words can affect the pace and mood of a text. How would you describ
e 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."
Explanation: Tone is achieved through word choice (diction), sentence construction and word order (syntax), and by what the viewpoint character focuses on.
