Read the passage from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Select the text that uses the most vivid descriptive language. She pulled the door wide. The entrance hall was so big you could have fit the whole of the Dursleys' house in it. The stone walls were lit with flaming torches like the ones at Gringotts, the ceiling was too high to make out, and a magnificent marble staircase facing them led to the upper floors. They followed Professor McGonagall across the flagged stone floor. Harry could hear the drone of hundreds of voices from a doorway to the right-the rest of the school must already be here-but Professor McGonagall showed the first years into a small, empty chamber off the hall.

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Itzel Gutierrez

30 March, 14:25

Read the passage from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Select the text that uses the most vivid descriptive language. She pulled the door wide. The entrance hall was so big you could have fit the whole of the Dursleys' house in it. The stone walls were lit with flaming torches like the ones at Gringotts, the ceiling was too high to make out, and a magnificent marble staircase facing them led to the upper floors. They followed Professor McGonagall across the flagged stone floor. Harry could hear the drone of hundreds of voices from a doorway to the right-the rest of the school must already be here-but Professor McGonagall showed the first years into a small, empty chamber off the hall.

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Kaylyn Boyer · Answer 1

Fit the whole of the Dursleys' house in it.,

flaming torches,

magnificent marble,

flagged stone floor,

drone,

Bryson Welch · Answer 2

I would say "T he stone walls were lit with flaming torches like the ones at Gringotts, the ceiling was too high to make out, and a magnificent marble staircase facing them led to the upper floors."