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D. Setting. it constantly described the kind of night it was and why it would be easy to go skating.
Answer: D) Setting.
Explanation: The setting of a story or a text is the place and time where the story takes place, it can also be the context of the story (political, historical, cultural, etc). In the given passage we can see the description of the setting of the story, (a winter night, with the moon silvering the twigs and the snow-drifts, and the skating rink near the speaker's house), so the correct answer is option D.