The following text is from NAME_1’s 1905
novel The House of Mirth. NAME_2 and a companion
are walking through a park.
NAME_3 had no real intimacy with nature, but she
had a passion for the appropriate and could be
keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting
background of her own sensations. The
landscape outspread below her seemed an
enlargement of her present mood, and she found
something of herself in its calmness, its breadth,
its long free reaches. On the nearer slopes the
sugar-maples wavered like pyres of light; lower
down was a massing of grey orchards, and here
and there the lingering green of an oak-grove.
Which choice best describes the function of the
underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
A) It creates a detailed image of the physical setting
of the scene.
B) It establishes that a character is experiencing an
internal conflict.
C) It makes an assertion that the next sentence then
expands on.
D) It illustrates an idea that is introduced in the
previous sentence.  Provide response in all capital letters, no lowercase letters allowed.
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