Question

Select the correct text in the passage.

Answer 1

The correct passage which best reflects common features of realistic fiction is:

From a window of an apartment house that upreared its form from amid squat, ignorant stables, there leaned a curious woman. Some laborers, unloading a scow at a dock at the river, paused for a moment and regarded the fight. The engineer of a passive tugboat hung lazily to a railing and watched. Over on the Island, a worm of yellow convicts came from the shadow of a building and crawled slowly along the river's bank.

(Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets)

Answer 2

Answer:

From a window of an apartment house that upreared its form from amid squat, ignorant stables, there leaned a curious woman. Some laborers, unloading a scow at a dock at the river, paused for a moment and regarded the fight. The engineer of a passive tugboat hung lazily to a railing and watched. Over on the Island, a worm of yellow convicts came from the shadow of a building and crawled slowly along the river's bank.

(Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets)

Explanation:

This is the excerpt that best reflects common features of realistic fiction. Realistic fiction refers to writing which is not actually a true story (it is not historical), but nevertheless resembles reality very closely. Therefore, this type of writing usually describes setting, characters and events that are believable in a real life scenario. In this example, the author describes an apartment house, laborers at the dock, the engineer of a tugboat and a group of convicts. All of these images are consistent with reality.