I would say that the narrative element used in this excerpt from Theodore Dreiser's short story "Peter" is <span>A) this excerpt shows the writer's use of figurative language to hold the reader's attention.
</span><span>I would choose this answer simply because the other ones seem incorrect - he doesn't develop Peter's character here. There are no flashbacks. And there is no conflict</span>
The correct answer is plot. Theme is the work's main idea (the "why" of the work), and there usually are more themes in a single work. Narrator is the "I" of the story, someone who tells it. The setting is the "when and where" of the story, the time-place frame. The plot is the "what" - what happens.
The Spy, written by James Fenimore Cooper, mainly took place in one setting. That setting was what they characters referred to as "the Locust." The Locust was the summer home of the Wharton's. They migrated to the home to try and avoid the war between the British and America and having to take sides.
