How does the use of dialogue affect the pacing of a story?

Read the excerpt from it's our world, too! : young people who are making a difference.the author’s purpose in this excerpt is to

1. saved aronnax from drowning "an incident" 2. speed of the nautilus man-of-war 3. next to captain nemo conseil 4. electricity vigo bay 5. "a coral tomb" 20,000 leagues 6. the nautilus runs aground nemo's "thunderbolt" 7. episodes are connected by aronnax's quarters 8. captain nemo's "bank" cause 9. distance aronnax traveled on the nautilus "a fine death for a sailor" 10. captain nemo sinks for revenge 50 miles per hour

Certain predictable elements of beowulf, such as the superhuman hero and the quest to defeat evil, are common to the form. a. story b. plot c. epic d. novel