Question

A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.

The passage above provides a description of which story element?

character
climax
rising action
setting

Answer 1

The answer is: Setting

In this excerpt the writer is describing the old houses in Manhattan that lacked of maintenance. They used to be the houses of important and big families but when the owners' children grew up and left the houses were sold and they were divided into different rooms and apartaments to be rented.