Try quite hard to makes the most sense, and I got it right on gradpush!
<span>The setting of this excerpt is a dense, secluded forest through which no travelers seem to want to venture. The strange, large figure in the road makes the protagonist paranoid and afraid, which further builds the tension and fear in the story from the previous excerpt.</span>
The correct sentence is C, because the use of the semicolon is correct.
The English language has more words and is used more than any other language