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The right answer is letter b: <em>the houses in both passages are described as having an air of rot, gloom and loneliness</em>.
Poe's character describes Mr. Roderick Usher's house as one he cannot help to consider a "melancholy view" where "there was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart" . Said house caused an "insufferable gloom" in the observer's spirit.
In a similar thread of thought, Bierce's tale about the Manton house describes its looks as sufficient to affirm it is<em> "haunted"</em>. He describes the house as <em>"slowly falling into decay"</em> as <em>"cobwebs weave in the angles of the walls like strips of rotting lace..."</em> all while standing <em>"a little way off the loneliest reach of the Marshall and Harriston road". </em>
The correct answer would be B. Guilt because in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The
Tell-Tale Heart,” the beating of the heart that narrator hears is symbolic for
the guilt the narrator feels for having murdered the old man. Evidence of his guilt is presented early in
the short story by how the narrator tells us that he “had to do it” as if he
had no other choice, which seems to be a sort of defense mechanism to make
himself feel better about killing the old man.
Finally, it is within the presence of the police that the beating heart
only he hears is what makes him confess to the crime because it was getting too
great for him to bear any longer.
Hope I helped.
Here is a small short story about deceptive appearances
In a beautiful kingdom was a prince, who he himself was quite handsome. The prince was quite picky, however, he was looking for a princess to wed. He turned them all away, too ugly, too poor, too sarcastic, too perfect. There was one left. The last princess was very beautiful, she had long raven hair, piercing emerald eyes, and a sweet personality. The princess though seeming perfect, was a witch. The prince decided upon the last princess, who at their ceremony, revealed herself to be a witch. The witch cursed him to be as ugly as his soul. Proving that looks can trick you if you look no further.
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