Read this excerpt from "The All-American Slurp."

The lady harpist stopped playing to take a rest. And in the silence, our family’s consumption of soup suddenly seemed unnaturally loud. You know how it sounds on a rocky beach when the tide goes out and the water drains from all those little pools? They go shloop, shloop, shloop. That was the Lin family, eating soup.

What story element does the author develop in this excerpt?

Imagery.

Explanation:

The author developed the style of his writing, imagery using the literary device onomatopoeia (which is formation of words from associated sounds) to achieve it.

The author first begins by informing the readers about the effect the lady harpist was having in her immediate surroundings and how everything changed when she stopped playing to take a rest.

The effect of the harpist pausing her play of the harp on the family of Lin eating soup and how it sounded. He compared the sound of the Lin family consuming soup to the sound of tides on a rocky beach.

He used imagery to project the reader to the story and the accompanying sounds of the Lin family eating soup because like tides on a rocky beach when the water drains from the little pools, the sounds of their eating sounded like "shloop shloop shloop".

the answer is:

in the fourth paragraph. ( the paragraph that begins with “on friday of my third ”).

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the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle is the lithosphere.     answer   crust and outer part of the mantle.