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"Payah Kun," Said the Eldest Magician, Meaning, "That Is Quite Right"; and He Breathed Upon the Great Rocks and Lumps of Earth That

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"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 phrases from the passage are examples of imagery? Check all that apply. "Payah kun," said the Eldest Magician, meaning, "That is quite right" "he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth" "the Moon rose big and full over the water" "he hopes one day to catch the world" "Ho! Fisher of the Moon'

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Examples of imagery from the passage are:1. "he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth"2. "the Moon rose big and full over the water"3. "Ho! Fisher of the Moon"