The back yard was covered in late afternoon sunlight. the leaves danced in the trees, delighted that spring had finally arrived. the tulips were bright slashes of color like a child's crayon drawing. in the garden, the first green shoots were pushing out of the soil to greet the warmth of the sun. sitting on the porch swing, i drank in the beauty of nature, a delicious treat. which fiction element is the focus in this paragraph? a. plot b. setting c. conflict d. theme

Setting.

Explanation: the setting of a written work is the place and time where the story or the plot take place. It can include a description of the place or time, or also it can be the description of the general atmosphere of the story. In the given excerpt we can see a clear example of the description of a setting, the speaker describes with details the backyard where he is, using figures of speech to create the image in the reader's mind like: "The leaves danced in the trees, delighted that spring had finally arrived."

in which scenario might one be asked to take minute meetings?

answer: b. a student attending an orientation

recent news about two years ago indicates that a polish forestry student by chance unearthed at a depth of about 40cm (16 inches), during digging in a damp polish forest he found a 13-page manuscript into a thermos flask.

greek jew marcel nadjari was a aischwitz slave who witnessed how the nazi's built big death chambers and crematoriums and told how he was forced to escort fellow jews to the gas chambers. he accounts on this manuscript how the nazi's disguised this chambers to look like showers. also, he describes this place as a process of extermination from the chambers to the trains arriving to take the bodies.