Read the excerpt from Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher."For several days ensuing, her name was unmentioned by either Usher or myself: and during this period I was busied in earnest endeavours to alleviate the melancholy of my friend.What does this excerpt reveal about the narrator of the story?
  • It provides an inference drawn by the narrator.
  • It emphasizes the sizeable burden imposed by the summons.
  • It describes what the narrator knows from his past.
  • It describes what the narrator experiences in the story.
Read the excerpt from "The Oval Portrait," by Edgar Allan Poe.But it could have been neither the execution of the work, nor the immortal beauty of the countenance, which had so suddenly and so vehemently moved me. Least of all, could it have been that my fancy, shaken from its half slumber, had mistaken the head for that of a living person. I saw at once that the peculiarities of the design, of the vignetting, and of the frame, must have instantly dispelled such idea—must have prevented even its momentary entertainment.What is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt?
  • It emphasizes the narrator's denial.
  • It emphasizes the tedious details of Usher's beliefs.
  • It emphasizes the narrator's paranoia.
  • It emphasizes Usher's sense of terror.
Read the excerpt from Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher."The conditions of the sentience had been here, he imagined, fulfilled in the method of the collocation of these stones -- in the order of their arrangement, as well as in that of the many fungi which overspread them, and of the decayed trees which stood around -- above all, in the long undisturbed endurance of this arrangement, and in its reduplication in the still waters of the tarn.What is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt?
  • It emphasizes the narrator's paranoia.
  • It emphasizes the narrator's denial.
  • It emphasizes the sizeable burden imposed by the summons.
  • It emphasizes the tedious details of Usher's beliefs.
Read the excerpt from "The Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar Allan Poe.Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates, yet I really knew very little of my friend. His reserve had been always excessive and habitual.What does this excerpt reveal about the narrator of the story?
  • It describes what the narrator knows from his past.
  • It emphasizes the sizeable burden imposed by the summons.
  • It provides an inference drawn by the narrator.
  • It describes what the narrator experiences in the story.
Read the excerpt from Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher."I dared not -- oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! -- I dared not -- I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb! Said I not that my senses were acute? I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin. I heard them -- many, many days ago -- yet I dare not -- I dared not speak! What is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt?
  • It emphasizes the tedious details of Usher's beliefs.
  • It emphasizes Usher's sense of terror.
  • It emphasizes the narrator's paranoia.
  • It emphasizes the narrator's denial.
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