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Dusk
by H.H. Munro (Saki)

Norman Gortsby sat on a bench in the Park, with his back to a strip of bush-planted sward, fenced by the park railings, and the Row fronting him across a wide stretch of carriage drive. Hyde Park Corner, with its rattle and hoot of traffic, lay immediately to his right. It was some thirty minutes past six on an early March evening, and dusk had fallen heavily over the scene, dusk mitigated by some faint moonlight and many street lamps. There was a wide emptiness over road and sidewalk, and yet there were many unconsidered figures moving silently through the half-light, or dotted unobtrusively on bench and chair, scarcely to be distinguished from the shadowed gloom in which they sat.

The scene pleased Gortsby and harmonised with his present mood. Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated. Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid their fallen fortunes and dead hopes as far as possible from the scrutiny of the curious, came forth in this hour of gloaming, when their shabby clothes and bowed shoulders and unhappy eyes might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate, unrecognised.

A king that is conquered must see strange looks, So bitter a thing is the heart of man.

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Use the passage to answer the question.

Which best describes the type of plot structure used by the author in this story?

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Responses which answer is correct and why

parallel
parallel

flashback
flashback

linear
linear

foreshadowed
foreshadowed
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Answer 1

The best description of the type of plot structure used by the author in this excerpt from "Dusk" by H.H. Munro (Saki) is linear.

Why?

In this passage, the narrative unfolds in a straightforward chronological manner, presenting the setting and the character's reflections without jumping back to previous events (flashback) or presenting multiple storylines that might run alongside each other (parallel). There is no indication of future events that might be hinted at (foreshadowed) either. The focus is on the current scene and the protagonist's thoughts in the moment, which aligns with a linear plot structure.