read the excerpt from Charles Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars. Then, answer the question that follows.
Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and colledabove an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clear
mutlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them. He could see that she was tastefully, though not richly, dressed...
Which type of characterization is evident in this passage?