Question

It was winter night like any other night. And I didn't have my chemistry done either. But the way the moon silvered the twigs and the snow-drifts, I just could not stay inside. The skating rink isn't far from our house—you can make it in five minutes if the side walks aren't slippery, so I went skating.
From “Sixteen,” Maureen Daly

The passage above is best viewed as a description of which element of a short story?

A.theme
B.conflict
C.character
D.setting

Answer 1

D. Setting. it constantly described the kind of night it was and why it would be easy to go skating.

Answer 2

Answer: D) Setting.

Explanation: The setting of a story or a text is the place and time where the story takes place, it can also be the context of the story (political, historical, cultural, etc). In the given passage we can see the description of the setting of the story, (a winter night, with the moon silvering the twigs and the snow-drifts, and the skating rink near the speaker's house), so the correct answer is option D.