Question

“Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud: an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound, and were bandying it to and fro”
Which detail indicates that this work is a romance?
A.
Without any effort
B.
he shrieked aloud
C.
an outcry that went pealing through the night
D.
reverberated from the hills in the background

Answer 1

The correct answer is C. An outcry that went pealing through the night

Explanation:

Romanticism was a movement in literature that emerged during the 19th century, this movement was about focusing on the emotions, the individual, the subjectivity, nature, and the past. Also, it means in literature there was a focus on the emotions of the characters, their sensibility connected to elements of nature and past. In the case of the excerpt included in this question the detail "An outcry that went pealing through the night" is an example of the romantic movement because it explores an emotion that is terror or fear that has been communicated through an outcry and also this emotion is connected to nature as it is related to the night and the possible effects of expressing this emotion, which is what romanticism is about.