Question

‘payah kun,’ said the eldest magician, meaning, ‘that is quite right’; and he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth that all-the-elephant-there-was had thrown up, and they became the great himalayan mountains, and you can look them out on the map. . . . then the moon rose big and full over the water, and the eldest magician said to the hunchbacked old man who sits in the moon spinning a fishing-line with which he hopes one day to catch the world, ‘ho! fisher of the moon, are you playing with the sea?’ — ‘the crab that played with the sea,’ rudyard kipling. which sentence most effectively helps to create a whimsical tone in this passage?
○ “you can look them out on the map.”
○ “‘payah kun,’ said the eldest magician.”
○ “then the moon rose big and full over the water.”
○ “ho! fisher of the moon, are you playing with the sea?”

Explanation:

To determine the sentence that creates a whimsical tone, we analyze each option:

• "You can look them out on the map." is a factual statement, not whimsical.
• "‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician." is just a quote, lacking whimsy.
• "Then the Moon rose big and full over the water." is a descriptive, neutral statement.
• "Ho! Fisher of the Moon, are you playing with the Sea?" personifies the Moon as a fisher and implies a playful interaction, which is whimsical (fanciful, imaginative).

Answer:

D. "Ho! Fisher of the Moon, are you playing with the Sea?"