Robert was thrilled to be free of the hungry fish and the endless slide. This time he dreamed of a meadow. The funny thing was t
hat the grass grew so tall that it seemed to reach the sky, or at least over his head. And what did he see but a gigantic beetle glaring at him, a caterpillar perched on a blade of grass, and an elderly man the size of a grasshopper bobbing up and down on a spinach leaf and staring at him with bright and shining eyes. “Who are you?” Robert asked.
The man responded in a surprisingly loud voice.
“I am the number devil!”
Robert was in no mood to put up with nonsense from a pip-squeak like that.
“First of all, there's no such thing as a number devil.”
“Is that so? How can you be speaking to me if I don't exist?”
Which aspects of the passages affect how you would read them aloud? Check all that apply.
The passages have different kinds of punctuation marks to end sentences.
The passages are from two different genres.
The passages have different points of view.
One passage has narration; the other has dialogue.
