Answer:
Because it takes place in the aftermath if the civil war, with an emphasis on setting, dialect and the depiction id an ordinary town and characters.
That type of figurative language is a metaphor.
Well, we can eliminate B because there are very few plays where they read out the stage directions. This play just by reading it wouldn't be one of them. So, B is now eliminated.
C can be eliminated too. The volume seems to stay calm throughout all of the passage.
D I feel we can eliminate too.
Therefore A is your best answer.
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