Question

Read this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death" and answer the question that follows. Here the case was very different, as might have been expected from the duke's love of the bizarre. The apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time. There was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards, and at each turn a novel effect. To the right and left, in the middle of each wall, a tall and narrow Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor which pursued the windings of the suite. These windows were of stained glass whose colour varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of the decorations of the chamber into which it opened. That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example in blue—and vividly blue were its windows. The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple. The third was green throughout, and so were the casements. The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange—the fifth with white—the sixth with violet. The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. . . .And thus were produced a multitude of gaudy and fantastic appearances. What kind of writing does the excerpt represent?

Answer 1

If you have choices which are:
a. expository
b. descriptive
c. persuasive
d. argumentative
Then the answer is letter D. If we will try to define argumentative, it  makes an argument that also persuades you in a different way but only of the sense that this time it is knocking what argument you made do. So from the excerpt, it shows an argument about the subject.

Answer 2

Answer:

The kind of writing the excerpt represents is descriptive.

Explanation:

Descriptive writing is a kind of style that focuses in give characteristics of the characters, places, and objects in the scene with a lot of detail so from that a mental picture can be formed in the mind of the reader. This excerpt describes the color, number, portions, and shapes of every detail in the room to give a clear image of it.