“bless my heart! ” exclaimed the new arrival, grasping both the other’s hands with his own. “it’s bob, sure as fate. i was certain i’d find you here if you were still in existence. well, well, well! —twenty years is a long time. the old restaurant’s gone, bob; i wish it had lasted, so we could have had another dinner there. how has the west treated you, old man? ”

which statement best describes how the pacing of the passage affects the story?

it creates humor by moving very quickly through the new character's greeting without having him identify himself to bob.
it creates a sense of surprise by having the newly arrived character speak with short phrases and exclamations.
it creates tension by slowing down the narrative and having the new character make some key mistakes that reveal that he is not jimmy wells.
it creates a sense of disappointment by slowing down the text to introduce a new character who will not be able to resolve the conflict bob faces.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.

What does the narrator point of view emphasizes?

Based on the character description what xan the reader infer about ruth