"by degrees i made a discovery of still greater moment. i found that these people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds. i perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers." who said this? a. walton b. the monster c. the villager d. frankenstein

B. The monster.

Explanation:

Mary Shelley's gothic novel "Frankenstein" is the story of a young scientist named Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created. He had wanted to learn and know about the source of life, thereby ending in the creation of the monster that he then detests.

This excerpt or dialogue is said by the monster in Chapter 12 of the text. The monster had been in hiding, but after he came to realize that the humans tend to be horrified by his appearance, he decided to completely stay out of their sight. He had been living secretly in a small hovel adjacent to a cottage where a poor young couple were living. He observes that  they were poor, leading the young woman to become sad often. He also notices that they "possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds", and that "the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers."

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