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bija089 [108]
3 years ago
7

Read the passage. As if in superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique pane

ls to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. In this excerpt from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, what is the narrator describing?
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1 answer:
tamaranim1 [39]3 years ago
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This excerpt from “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe describes the moment when the narrator and Roderick Usher realize that they buried Lady Madeline alive, and that she is actually opening the doors of the room where they are.

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