Answer:
I would say the crowd presses in expectantly or the last one
Explanation:
The reason I say this is because he is being pressured by the expectation of the people. It is also the only one that fits. Reading the excerpt says that he is being pressured especially with the part that says "The people expected it of me and I had got to do it; I could feel their two thousand wills pressing me forward, irresistibly." Which shows that he is in fact being pressured by expectation the answer was in the excerpt you just had to look close enough!! I really hope this helps!
Answer:
B. Lenore was the speaker’s lover but she has recently died.
Explanation:
In the narrative poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe, the speaker/ narrator of the poem is in heartbreaking and lonely mood, who was still in the mourning phase of his life. He was in "<em>sorrow for the lost Lenore</em>" who had died recently, leaving him devastated and unable to move on.
The visit by the raven at night makes him more distraught, continuously thinking of his Lenore and if by any chance, there is "<em>a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore</em>". He could not stop thinking about his lost love. Thus, the character of Lenore is the speaker's lover who had died recently.
Answer:
Active
Explanation:
It expresses the verb in the beginning.
