Question

Read the excerpt from The Call of the Wild.From every hill slope came the trickle of running water, the music of unseen fountains. All things were thawing, bending, snapping. The Yukon was straining to break loose the ice that bound it down. It ate away from beneath; the sun ate from above. Air-holes formed, fissures sprang and spread apart, while thin sections of ice fell through bodily into the river. And amid all this bursting, rending, throbbing of awakening life, under the blazing sun and through the soft-sighing breezes, like wayfarers to death, staggered the two men, the woman, and the huskies.Which phrases best use descriptive language to help readers hear what is happening in the scene?

Answer 1

Answer: Yukon was straining to break loose the ice that bound it down.

Air-holes formed, fissures sprang and spread apart, while thin sections of ice fell through bodily into the river.

And amid all this bursting, rending, throbbing of awakening life, under the blazing sun.

Explanation:Descriptive langauge is the one that gives us an effective description of what is happening in the story, in a way that through those descriptive words we are able to have a picture or an idea in mind of what happens.

Answer 2

Answer:

The best phrases used as descriptive language to help readers hear what is happening in the scene is:

"And amid all this bursting, rending, throbbing of awakening life, under the blazing sun and through the soft-sighing breezes, like wayfarers to death, staggered the two men, the woman, and the huskies."

This passes the sensory details of what is happening to the reader giving him the sights and sounds of early springs.

Explanation:

The phrases above help the reader to have a feel of the spring as winter leaves.

It gives a description of the sound of waters after Yukon broke loose out of the ice.