I think that its either B, the host's responses to the woman, or C, the woman's excessive commentary. (I'm leaning more towards B, but i'm not sure.)
One example that establishes irony is woman asking if the musician is "grateful" for being introduced to white people and the host's contradictory response. I hope this helped! :)
For the first question we say that is an absolute phrase because it combinesa noun and a participle with any acompanying modifier or object. For the second question we can see that the mood of this oart of the passage os dreary as it describes fog and many creepy and sad situations related to it. And for the 3rd question we can say it is a slow pace, even there are many sentences, he takes the time to describe or give more information to the reader for many of the sentences of this paragraph, something that surely cannot be told in a fast pace
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It changes your way of understanding because as you get closer your perspective of that object,that is; the way too see it will be different.
A, discourage you can tell because if you plug in the options that is the only one that makes sense and the opposite of dissuade is persuade which means to encourage.