Question

analyze craft and structure—from \a pull for life and love,\ theodore winthrop read the following abridgement of \a pull for life and love,\ a chapter from the novel love and skates. then, answer the question(s). perry is a young cabin boy on the docked steamship ambuster. left alone on the ship, perry is fooling around with a skiff, a small rowboat on deck used to go to and from the ship when it is not docked. the others in the crew are ashore eating lunch in a foundry, or factory, when perry notices a woman lying on a sheet of ice in the river. it is early spring, and the ice is breaking up. which stage of the plot of this narrative do paragraphs 1 through 15 most clearly represent? a. exposition b. rising action c. falling action d. conflict

Explanation:

The paragraphs introduce the character Perry, his situation on the ship, and set - up the problem of the woman on the ice. This is the stage where the story's setting, characters, and basic situation are presented, which is characteristic of the exposition.

Answer:

A. exposition