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The narrative element is used in this excerpt from Theodore Dreiser’s short story “Peter” is <span>This excerpt shows how the writer is trying to pace the story through flashbacks.</span>
Answer: B) It supports the author’s purpose of challenging the image of the romantic countryside.
The reason why the author employs this type of words is in order to challenge the romantic image we often have of the countryside. He wants to explain to us how for Elizabethans, these landscapes are not beautiful and romantic, but useless and dangerous. In this way, he helps us better understand the perspective of this time period.