Plz help Which statement best evaluates the author's use of pacing to enhance the narrative? The finish line banner moved back and forth in the wind, and Mattie's pace picked up slightly when she saw the large running clock ticking off the seconds. As she heard someone yelling her name, her eyes looked through the crowd and found her mom, who was waving her arms and jumping up and down Mattie giggled, and with the realization that she would cross the finish line this time, she felt a tear slip out. "I did it," she whispered to herself as she crossed the finish line. A. The pacing is not effective, because the long sentences are too relaxed to capture the excitement of finishing a race. B. The pacing is effective, because the long sentences are appropriately triumphant, emphasizing Mattie's joy at winning the race: C. The pacing is effective, because the short sentences are appropriately frantic, showing how important it is to Mattie to finish the race. D. The pacing is not effective, because the short sentences are too upbeat to depict Mattie's difficulty with running,​

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

Realism was a fairly influential and widespread literary movement in the united states in the latter half of the nineteenth century. which american writer is among the pioneers of american realism? a. ernest hemingway b. f. scott fitzgerald c. j. d. salinger d. mark twain

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