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Your answer is onomatopoeia.
The Cask Of Amontillado is a classic Gothic story, as it includes Gothic themes such as murder, an overlying dark theme in all, and a very "human" reason for the murder.
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The correct answer is option B "Humans and nature live in a precarious balance". Alan H. Weisman is an American author widely known for his work as journalist. One of his most critically acclaimed works is "The World Without Us", a book where a scenario of the Earth without humans is described. One of the themes in Weisman's works are the balance that human and nature have, he would likely agree that this is a precarious balance.
An independent clause is a clause that has a subject and verb and forms a complete thought.