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Pacing is the speed at which a story unfolds. The action in a story can be fast, slow, or somewhere in between. Different parts of a narrative can have a different _________.
Writers can also change a story’s pacing by varying ___________ . Longer sentences cause the pacing to slow down. Shorter sentences help to speed up the action.
For an event that is more exciting, a writer may choose to use shorter sentences. This lets the reader feel the excitement by reading at a _________ _________.
For an event that is more serious or slow, a writer may choose to use long sentences so that the reader slows down and thinks about what is going _________.
___________, the moments of a story when the author shows what is happening in a character's mind, is another way that a writer can impact the pacing. The more a writer has a character _________ on what is going on, the longer the story may seem.