How does an author control the pacing of a story?

a. by changing the sentence structure or how quickly events unfold in a story
b. by switching the story's point of view among many different characters
c. by making the narrator reliable and someone the reader can trust
d. by making the characters' dialogue sound like real conversation

A. By changing the sentence structure or how quickly events unfold in a story.

Explanation:

There are several ways in which an author can control the pacing of a story. For example, an author can change the way his sentences are structured. Long sentences tend to give a story a slow pacing, while short sentences lead to a quickening of the pace. Also, an author can control how quickly events unfold in a story, and this would allow the author to control the pacing of the story.

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