The technique that Irving used to build suspense in the excerpt is this:
- The pace of the story quickens.
<h3>What is the pace of a story?</h3>
The pace of a story refers to the speed at which the events in the story occur. From the descriptions in the text, it can be seen that the activities moved in a very fast way.
The manner in which the narrator wore her clothes, ran downstairs and tumbled some furniture demonstrates a hastening of events and this causes a measure of suspense.
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The words in the sentence that are predicate adjective are B) Happy and C) Proud.
Pierre Aronnax... <span>Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French </span>marine biologist<span> and narrator of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time, receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition which he accepts.</span>
B) last Friday, work will begin