Question

Which is true about the pacing in this excerpt? A. The short, choppy sentences slow the pace and provide background information. B. The short, choppy sentences quicken the pace and create a sense of urgency. C. The long, detailed sentences slow the pace and provide background information. D. The long, detailed sentences quicken the pace and create a sense of urgency.

Answer 1

Answer:

C. The long, detailed sentences slow the pace and provide background information.

Explanation:

Pacing is the speed at which the narration takes place, or a story is told. It can be fast-paced or slow-paced but it does not include the speed of the story, but just the narrative voice.

In the given excerpt from "Lather and Nothing Else", the author Hernando Tellez provides the narrative voice through the character of the barber. A certain Captain Torres had come to the barbershop owned by a revolutionary to get himself groomed, at which the barber had an internal conflict to whether kill the captain and save his revolutionary comrades or do his work and hide his true self from the captain. And as given in the passage, the barber describes how the captain's beard had grown and begun a bit by bit slow-paced description of the captain's face and the preparations he did to get the lather worked up. These long and detailed sentences slows the pace of the story and at the same time provide background information.

Thus, the correct answer is option C.