Answer:
Correct answer is "The dark, quiet autumn day creates a mood of menace and gloom."
The story is designated to create a gothic mood. Poe utilizes words like “black, vacant, decayed, gray, gothic and sluggish” to construct the climate.
The house of Usher express depressed, creepy, dark and gloomy, such as a haunted house.
Is there a passage, or any options?
Answer:
A). His confidence is transformed by the crowd's response.
Explanation:
Characterization plays a vital role in conveying the intended picture or image of a particular character to the audience so that they could elicit desired response about each character accordingly.
As per the question, Scotty in the given excerpt from 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' is portrayed as the one 'whose confidence boosts and gets transformed by receiving the positive and encouraging response from the audience' by the author. The author begins the passage with presenting Scotty as a little nervous and quavering and he had to redouble his force in order to face the audience but the audience's cheer and the swell of approval from the center of the crowd gave transformed his confidence and brought the hidden 'strong, charismatic, and fierce' side of Scotty. Therefore, <u>option A</u> is the correct answer.
Can't help because I don't know the name of this book