Read the passage.I looked up at the high diving board towering over me and wondered how I would muster the courage to jump from such a height. Step, breathe. Step, breathe. Step, breathe. One inch at a time, I forced my legs to lift me skyward.

The repeated short phrases “Step, breathe” create a deliberate sentence pattern that emphasizes the speaker’s effort to keep moving upward. This is using syntax for emphasis. The words describe literal actions, so the passage is not mainly expressing a nonliteral meaning or using formal language.

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