Answer:
The correct answer is A.
Explanation:
The purpose of this excerpt from "The Crab That Played with the Sea" is to use a story to explain children the causes of the tide.
"The fisherman" is the moon, and the action of the tides is represented by him pulling his fishing rod and taking the sea with it.
The answer is:
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4) "<span>I seized the bell-rope; dropped it, ashamed; seized it again; dropped it once more; clutched it tremblingly once again, and pulled it so feebly that I could hardly hear the stroke myself.</span><span>"
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