To show that the noble people have more class/authority
Answer:
I would say that these lines from Edgar Allan Poe's <em>The Fall of the House of Usher</em> evoke a sense of <em>melancholy</em> in the reader.
Explanation:
Those lines describe a silent, grey moment when the speaker feels lonely, full of thoughts and shades from the past. The speaker is overwhelmed by those feelings and when seeing the House of Usher, he feels a painful gloom invading his soul. The whole excerpt transmit a sense of heavy melancholy in the reader.
A. the Normans assumed control and changed the language spoken there
The answer is your second option: human.
Say a person uses personification to a dog. They may say something like "the dog is smiling!" when, in fact, dogs wag their tails to emote joy and do not have the capacity to really smile.
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