Question

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Which description of the setting does Bierce use to establish the conflict?
A) "He quietly raise his forehead from his arm and looked between the masking stems of the laurels, instinctively closing his right hand about the stock of his rifle."
B) "On a colossal pedestal, the cliff, -motionless at the extreme edge of the capping rock and sharply outlined against the sky, -was an equestrian statue of impressing dignity."
C) "Carter Druse grew pale; he shook in every limb, turned faint, and saw the statuesque group before him as black figures, rising, falling, moving unsteadily in arcs of circles in a fiery sky."
D) "It may well be the fixity of attention - Druse turned his head and looked through the deeps of air downward, as from surface to the bottom of a translucent sea

Answer 1

Your best answer would be C. "Carter Druse grew pale; he shook in every limb, turned faint, and saw the statuesque group before him as black figures, rising, falling, moving unsteadily in arcs of circles in a fiery sky.

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Answer 2

Answer:

The description of the setting that Bierce uses to establish the conflict is "Carter Druse grew pale; he shook in every limb, turned faint, and saw the statuesque group before him as black figures, rising, falling, moving unsteadily in arcs of circles in a fiery sky."

Explanation:

"A horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce is the story of a father and his son who have to face each other in war, this represents an inner conflict in the characters since they are family but they should attack each other, then in this excerpt, Carter the son follows his instructions and shoots his own father to honor his beliefs.