Grant Howell

English

18 January, 09:18

Read the following excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi" and answer the 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