Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Then I carried the sack about a hundredyards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes--and ducks too, you might say, in the season. There was a slough or a creek leading out of it on the other side that went miles away, I don't know where, but it didn't go to the river. (p. 37) How would you best categorize this description? setting: physical description setting: time setting: social conditions dialect

Answer 1

Answer:

physical description

Answer 2

This is a physical description as it fully depicts the place that the character is passing by. For instance, he/she identifies meters ("about a hundred yards") and miles ("that was five miles wide".) He/she also describes the place: "a shallow lake," "full of rushes," "and ducks (...) in the season," "There was a slough or a creek leading out of it." This is a setting full of physical details.