5. The author of the passage is best described as A. an erudite literary historian
B. a strorſg proponent of a particular theory
C. a cynical observer of artistic pretentiousness
D. an analyst of various historical prose styles
E. a practicing artist as well as a writer

Some one drawing water and my theater placed my hand under the spout. as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water , first slowly , then rapidly . i stood still ,my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers . suddenly i felt misty consciousness as of soothing forgotten --a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me this passage from the stoyof my life is an wxample of which element of plotclimax action