Read the excerpt from poe’s "the masque of the red death." and thus too, it happened, perhaps, that before the last echoes of the last chime had utterly sunk into silence, there were many individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware of the presence of a masked figure which had arrested the attention of no single individual before. which short story element does poe reveal in the excerpt? a plot detail characters’ thoughts the theme or message setting description

a plot detail.

In this excerpt, Poe is revealing a plot detail. The plot of a text refers to the sequence of events in a story which are connected to one another through the principle of cause and effect. In other words, the plot refers to all the major events that happen in a story. In this case, Poe is giving us a plot detail when he tells us that many individuals in the crowd had become aware of the masked person.

answer; i believe that the   correct answer is (d)the use of descriptive words that bring your reader into the story, not using literal words for check luck

just to , the answer is b on edge