Question

Read this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death" and answer the question that follows.

Here the case was very different, as might have been expected from the duke's love of the bizarre. The apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time. There was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards, and at each turn a novel effect. To the right and left, in the middle of each wall, a tall and narrow Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor which pursued the windings of the suite. These windows were of stained glass whose colour varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of the decorations of the chamber into which it opened. That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example in blue—and vividly blue were its windows. The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple. The third was green throughout, and so were the casements. The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange—the fifth with white—the sixth with violet. The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. . . .And thus were produced a multitude of gaudy and fantastic appearances.

What kind of writing does the excerpt represent?

expository
descriptive
persuasive
argumentative

Answer 1

the answer is descriptive

Answer 2

The correct answer is B. Descriptive

Step-by-step explanation:

In writing, descriptive writing focuses on using adjectives, details and appeal to the senses tell the reader how a place, person, object or situation is and therefore, help the reader to create a mental image about the element described.

In the case of the excerpt presented, this represents descriptive writing because in it the narrator describes the general structure and different chambers of a building and includes multiple details in terms of structure "The apartments were so irregularly disposed "; location of elements " To the right and left, in the middle of each wall, a tall and narrow Gothic window"; and even the colors in each chamber "The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange" that allow the reader to imagine all the elements described.