The advantages of using active voice can be that readers engage in the text more easily because the text is less wordy . Also, all the elements are mentioned, so the sentence will be less confusing. For example, the sentence: " A group of kids smashed the window pane" may be more enganging than : " A window pane was smashed by a group of kids"; and less confusiong than: " A window pane was smashed". Why is the active voice less wordy? Because you do not need to use the italised words: " A window pane <em>was</em> smashed <em>by</em> a group of kids." Why is the active voice less confusing? , Because you will never omit the agent. Compare: "<em>A group of kids</em> smashed the window pane." This has an agent -see italised phrase. " A window pane was smashed". This has not got an agent.
The parts of Edgar Allan Poe's excerpt "the fall of the house of Usher" that bring out gloomy and oppressive mood would be the part the narrator found out that usher got a mental illness. Usher begged his friend to come and see what's wrong with him.
