By making the portrait eerily lifelike.
Answer:
According to King’s purpose of horror writing, Irving achieved the purpose of a horror story:
1 - As words age
2- Existing words
3 - Increase and modfies
4 - continue to change
Explanation:
its the first one you need to infer, look for repeated words and make connections based on the details and topic if the article
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