Question

Read the following text: With all the mist and fog, Shelby thought the leaves should have been less crunchy underfoot. Which story element does this line provide?

Backstory
Conflict
Plot
Setting

Answer 1

I would say this line provides the setting for the story. It gives a sense of a fall day with mist a fog, the sky being dreary and the smell of decaying leaves in the air and being surrounded by the sound of crunchy leaves. 

Answer 2

The best answer to the question: Which story element does this line provide, would be: Setting.

Step-by-step explanation:

When writing stories, one element that is really important to give to readers is the setting of it, meaning, where the story is, or will be, developing itself. Making it mysterious, almost as if the very key to the question that will be developed in the story were hidden in it, is a really intelligent thing to do, as it is what we see in this text. The line itself tells us where the character, Shelby is located, what characteristics there are, and it also gives us a clue that maybe this will be a suspense, or mystery story. The simple line opens us to the setting, which is why the answer is the last one, and it also feeds our interest to learn why the tone of it is so suspensful.