Read the excerpt from Part 2 of "The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell.

Question

Dusk came, then darkness, and still he pressed on. The ground grew softer under his moccasins; the vegetation grew ranker, denser; insects bit him savagely.

Then, as he stepped forward, his foot sank into the ooze. He tried to wrench it back, but the muck sucked viciously at his foot as if it were a giant leech. With a violent effort, he tore his feet loose. He knew where he was now.

The descriptive language presents a visual image of a place that is
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Answer 1

dark, dense, and treacherous.