The root word is "tentive" which is to hold or grasp.
The author choose to put a break between the narrator's discovery and his recovery by others to suggest the extent of the narrator's shock. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the first option or option "a". I hope that this is the answer that has come to your desired help.
B Beacause Trees Cannot hear
The answer is D.) The author uses an example to point out how an alternative could satisfy both sides of the argument.
The answer is C The phonograph recorded on tinfoil and the gramophone recorded on wax