The definition of time as something that passes and is centred in the now is contained implicitly in the use of the tenses ... Clocks do not measure the passage of time but translate temporal intervals into spatial structures.
What is the excerpt and options?
The tone is Marigolds starts off as a childish tone with free will then at the end with guilt
Answer: Yukon was straining to break loose the ice that bound it down.
Air-holes formed, fissures sprang and spread apart, while thin sections of ice fell through bodily into the river.
And amid all this bursting, rending, throbbing of awakening life, under the blazing sun.
Explanation:Descriptive langauge is the one that gives us an effective description of what is happening in the story, in a way that through those descriptive words we are able to have a picture or an idea in mind of what happens.