How does sentence structure affect the pace in this excerpt from the short story “The Journey” by Edith Wharton? As she lay in her berth, staring at the shadows overhead, the rush of the wheels was in her brain, driving her deeper and deeper into circles of wakeful lucidity. The sleeping-car had sunk into its night silence. Through the wet window-pane she watched the sudden lights, the long stretches of hurrying blackness. Now and then she turned her head and looked through the opening in the hangings at her husband’s curtains across the aisle…. The excerpt uses longer sentences to create a slower pace. The excerpt uses alternating sentence lengths to create an erratic pace. The excerpt uses sentences with short phrases to create a fast pace. The excerpt uses sentences in brief paragraphs to create a lively pace.