Read the passage from “The Crab That Played with the Sea.” “‘You are lazy,’ said the…

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Read the passage from “The Crab That Played with the Sea.”
“‘You are lazy,’ said the Eldest Magician. ‘So your children shall be lazy. They shall be the laziest people in the world. They shall be called the Malazy—the lazy people;’ and he held up his finger to the Moon and said, ‘O Fisherman, here is the Man too lazy to row home. Pull his canoe home with your line, Fisherman.’”
How does repetition affect the narrator’s tone?
Repetition of the word
lazy
makes the tone angry.
Repetition of the word
lazy
makes the tone humorous.
Repetition of the word
Fisherman
makes the tone playful.
Repetition of the word
Fisherman
makes the tone serious.

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