I'm not sure if you forgot to add options, or maybe I just don't see them but- I'd say the answer is:
Mythopoetic approach
~Good luck!
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I think the traitor is Edward
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that means they played beautifully
The diction of Steinbeck here in apparently describing the dustbowl conditions of the Dirty Thirties is speaking of "tenant men" or presumably men who were tenant farmers perhaps who were allowed to live on the land in return for working it and that they "scuffed" their way home indicates that the dust was so thick they had to scuff but also perhaps that since they could barely make a living under the poor agricultural conditions they did not walk confidently but scuffed.
The part of the speech where it is most expressive is often stressed in iambic pentameter. The lines that make use of this format contain rhythm and are cleverly written to convey a feeling or a description. Dialogues and soliloquy appear poetic because of this meter.