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


I believe it is either average or slow but I am not sure.