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Read the passage from The War of the Worlds.

I turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred yards away; but I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things.

The author uses paradox in the sentence to create a sense of
1. amusement
2. curiosity
3. excitement
4. horror
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