Regretting
(Because he was feeling sorry for himself, and the only word that is similar that feeling was regretting.)
It is always too soon to quit trying to achieve one’s dream.
(Because when he was about to quit the emerald appear. It was too soon because he was so close)
This excerpt represents the rising action of a narrative.
(Because one end up wanting to know what is going to happen next. os it is rising the interest and the suspense to get to the climax of the story.)
Personification
(Personification because he is telling that the books tell him stories. And since a book is an inanimate object that is being given a human action, the that means it is personification.)
She explain that was not course the great
The phrases, fragments, and punctuations used in the sentence support us to determine the mood of the text and the pacing of the passage which can be characterized as moderate.
<h3>What is Punctuation?</h3>
Punctuation may be defined as those marks and symbols which are operated in writing to distinct sentences and their elements and to elucidate meaning in a more clear sense. Some of the examples are comma, full stop, semi colon, exclamatory, etc.
The above passage uses a good number of commas in between the text, which slightly reduces the pace of the passage. The utilization of exclamatory expressions and their fragments maintains the extreme pace of the passage which is absolutely absent.
Therefore, the passage can be described as an average/moderate level of pace.
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