One of the key things that a passage of descriptive writing should do is appeal to all five of the senses. Appeal to the sense of sight only (how things look) and your writing will lack dimension. <span>Description in writing helps readers to fully imagine the situation or some feelings. </span>
To show who is talking. Who specifically.
Answer:
Realism.
Explanation:
The given quote is taken from the novel titled 'The Marrow of Tradition' written by Charles Waddell Chestnutt in 1901. The novel is a historical novel that portrayed the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898.
The literary era that the given quote resemble is realism. The novel was written during the realist literary period. Realism is an era between 1865-1900, a movement that opposed Romanticism.
So, the correct asnwer is realism.