The words in the brackets are telling the actors what to physically do, meaning it would be a stage direction.
It isn't dialogue because that is a conversation between two people.
It isn't dialect because that is how a person speaks. There is no speaking in the brackets.
It isn't narration because it isn't spoken allowed for the audience.
It isn't a description because that is too broad a term more often used for emotions.
Answer:
Carrying many merry passengers
Explanation:
The others don’t make sense or like goes along with the sentence
To establish a sense of curiosity, to get them to read more
What sets off appositives in the sentence is the use of the quotation mark, comma (,). This indicates that the phrase is just an added information in the sentence, and if omitted will never change the whole thought or idea of the sentence. Aside from commas, parentheses or dashes can be used as well.
Answer:
The word would be are but it does all but one.