Why would Stephen Crane employ multiple techniques to create vivid imagery in his novel? to effectively portray the climate of war
to afford the reader a method of researching battles
to clarify the climate of battles in Virginia
to ensure that the reader understood the point of the novel

Read the excerpt from "a pair of silk stockings." but she went on feeling the soft, sheeny luxurious things—with both hands now, holding them up to see them glisten, and to feel them glide serpent-like through her fingers. which best describes the underlying tone of the excerpt created by the connotations of the words “soft,” ”luxurious,” “glisten,” and “serpent-like”? 1. gloom 2. temptation 3. forgiveness 4. suspicion