Question

Highlight descriptive details. The air was motionless. The dust lay still. Only the horseflies stirred, continuing to bite at our legs, but nobody even attempted to swat them away. —Iqbal, Francesco D’Adamo What inferences can be made about the setting, based on the descriptive details in the passage? Check all that apply. The setting is unpleasant. The setting is appealing. The setting has very little movement. The setting has insects. The setting is somewhere cold. The setting is a stable.

Answer 1

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A, C, D

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Answer 2

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The best answers to the question: What inferences can be made about the setting, based on the descriptive details in the passage? Would be: The setting is unpleasant, the setting has very little movement and finally, the setting has insects.

Explanation:

"Iqbal" is a story by Francesco D´Adamo which was published in 2001.

In this very short excerpt from the story, which narrates the events that happen in the life of Iqbal, a child who is sold into slavery and put to work at a carpet factory, along with other children, the reader can feel, above all, the stagnation of the scene, the sense of helplessness and also of impotence. Just reading those short words make you think of a stifling place, where nothing except insects move and where everything seems to be frozen within time, except suffering and pain. This is why the answer are those three.