This excerpt follows a grave, slow tone. After Madeleine Usher's return from the grave, the narrator flees in full speed, and all the pasage becomes enraged with fierce, quick action, first represented in the storn, and then with the "wild light" that is "shot along the path", which may be taken for lightning, but an unnatural source of this light is suggested as the narrator wonders what might be the origin of this "gleam so unusual". The reader is thus taken from the realm of nature into the realm of the unnatural or supernatural.
Maybe B? I kind of need the passage to tell you for sure :/ or D.

Gee, with those fang-like teeth, the Atlantic wolffish is one creepy-looking creature.

The mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying and analyzing information to reach an answer or conclusion is called critical thinking. There are numerous careers in the world where you must be able to use critical thinking everyday. Some of the people who must do this are policemen, judges, lawyers, and surgeons. The correct answer is D.
Answer:
Our weather is getting <em>hotter</em>.
It means it's going to get <em>harder</em> to predict.
When I get <em>older</em>, I'll build my house on high ground.
When hurricanes reach land, they get <em>weaker</em>.
Mudslides are dangerous because they travel <em>faster</em> than anyone can run.
We're trying to make our carbon footprint <em>smaller</em> by walking to school.