Question

Now while the two were talking together, Paula Amma the crab who was next in the game scuttled off sideways and stepped into the sea saying to himself i will play my play alone in the deep waters and I will never be obedient to this son of Adam.

answer choice
character
imagery
repetition

Answer 1

If the question is about the words "scuttled off" then the accurate answer would be imagery, more specifically, kinesthetic imagery, that is to say, imagery related to the vivid significance of the movement of the crab that implies both a physical gesture that reveals an emotional movement associated to that gesture. In literature, this is called "from motion to emotion". In this particular case, the movement of scuttling off implies that the patience of the crab is about to meet its limits and because the crab does no longer want to be subjected to an uncomfortable situation it translates its emotion into the motion of leaving. Furthermore, the following use of direct speech right after this motion completes the cycle of emotion to motion and then back to emotion.

Answer 2

According to what you added on the comment section, the idea is to tell whether the phrase scuttled off sideways is an example of answer choice, character, imagery or repetition. I would say that it is an example of imagery.

Step-by-step explanation:

Imagery is a figurative language that is used to represent, in the mind of the reader, an action or an object or even an idea. In this case, it is used to represent the action of movement that the crab is doing. When we read "the crab who was next in the game scuttled off sideways" we can picture the crab making that movement very clearly in our heads.