The use of phrases, fragments, and punctuation can affect the pace and mood of a text. how would you describe the pace of the following passage? "for the most wild, yet most homely narrative which i am about to pen, i neither expect nor solicit belief. mad indeed would i be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence." fast slow both fast and slow average

The answer is the second option, "SLOW".

The pace of a text is the speed of the story, it is not the speed of what the story takes place but it is the speed at which the story is told. As you mention in the question, there are some things that can affect the pace and mood of a text such as phrases, fragments, punctuation, the length of the scenes, among other things.

In this particular case, it is evident how punctuation affects the pace of the text because the sentences are long with a lot of commas that are slowing the speed of the text.

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it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

if you don't mind posting the paragraph so i could read it that would a lot. (;