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kompoz [17]
3 years ago
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DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heav

ens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium—the bitter lapse into every-day life—the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.
2 Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom I now proposed to myself a sojourn of some weeks. Its proprietor, Roderick Usher, had been one of my boon companions in boyhood; but many years had elapsed since our last meeting. A letter, however, had lately reached me in a distant part of the country—a letter from him—which, in its wildly importunate nature, had admitted of no other than a personal reply. The MS. gave evidence of nervous agitation. The writer spoke of acute bodily illness—of a mental disorder which oppressed him—and of an earnest desire to see me, as his best and indeed his only personal friend, with a view of attempting, by the cheerfulness of my society, some alleviation of his malady. It was the manner in which all this, and much more, was said—it was the apparent heart that went with his request—which allowed me no room for hesitation; and I accordingly obeyed forthwith what I still considered a very singular summons.

Read the passage on the left to answer the following questions:
1)
What effect does the first sentence of the story have upon the reader?

A)
It makes the reader believe that the House of Usher is evil.


B)
It makes the reader believe that the main character is evil.


C)
It causes the reader to feel a sense of scathing contempt for what will happen.


D)
It causes the reader to feel a sense of gloom and foreboding about what will happen.


2)
What are TWO effects of the author's choice to have the narrator focus his attention upon the House of Usher in the opening paragraph?

A)
It makes the reader question the sanity of the narrator.


B)
It makes the reader question if the House of Usher is real.


C)
It makes the reader decide that the house must not be so bad.


D)
It makes the reader share the narrator's preoccupation with the house.


E)
It makes the reader wonder why the house leaves such a powerful impression.
English
1 answer:
posledela3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

  1. D) it causes the reader to feel a sense of gloom and foreboding about what will happen.
  2. E) it makes the reader wonder why the house leaves such a powerful impression

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