Well, do it as it says, there really isn't exactly an answer to give you. >.>
Answer:
The heat and the monotony of the train make the children think the trip is boring.
Explanation:
'The Story-Teller' is a short story written by H. H. Munro (pen name Saki). The story is about a young man who tells a tale to a group of agitated children on the train with an imperfect ending.
<u>As the story begins, the readers find the characters traveling on a train on their way to Templecombe. The weather described by the author is hot and sultry. This setting of the story affects the three children, traveling with their aunt, become agitated due to boredom of the trip. Their agitation and boredome then turns into asking too many questions to their aunt, which leads the aunt to tell a tale to the children followed by the story by the young man</u>.
Thus, the correct answer that how the setting of te story at the beginning affected the characters is the it made children perceive the trip to be boring.
Therefore, correct option is the third one (C).
In this problem together with the given example, the most probable answer and the most likely one to be the correct answer would be C. analogical reasoning.
The reason would be how the example presented itself. The example goes like "all cats are independent. Mitzy is a cat. Therefore, Mitzy is independent."
With this, it is important to take note that analogy was being used in this given example. Through establishing that one side has a similarity to the other, then it could be also said that the other side can also be compared to another if it has any established similarities.