Wasn't it Phillis Wheatley's "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious, and Moral"?
Explanation:
If you like to listen to music while writing, choose music without words or ambient noise, for example, the sound of water. Almost every study that I looked at found that music with lyrics hindered concentration and productivity. However, one study showed that low-level ambient noise can improve creativity.
Answer:
They started out as stories told aloud to young people
It seems to me that, the thing wthat <span>the author has done in order to create a tone of seriousness in this piece is </span>a fact that he has used a long sentence with complex syntax to ask the reader to pay close attention.
Even though you haven't shared any options to choose the correct one, I bet this one will suit the question.
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