When you restate the author's ideas, opinions or words in your own words, you are paraphasing.. quoting.. summarzing..

Paraphrasing.

Explanation:

Paraphrasing is an activity that involves encountering information in any form of discourse and restating the meaning and sense of the information in other words, or, in your own words. The aim of paraphrasing is to clarify, and as such, to explain further, the meaning of the information encountered: this can be aimed at one´s own comprehension or at others´ comprehension.    

- "he is a very real person and his intent isn't to influence us vonnegut addresses this towards the end of the letter when he says, if we choose to curse, that is by our own individual means."

the sentence that best describes the tone of the passage from the radio broadcast compared to the passage from the book is b. the radio broadcast has a more surprised tone.

consider the text evidence: in the passage from the book, the description is more matter-of-fact. it is simply describing the things resembling little grey snakes, but there is no urgency in the description. on the other hand, in the passage from the radio broadcast, there is definetely urgency (you can tell from the expression used, "good heavens", which clearly indicates surprise.)