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>
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c. <em>The </em><em>pattern </em><em>of </em><em>the </em><em>wallpaper </em>
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The English built a small fort on a small island off the coast of Virginia. The Aquascogoc, a Native American tribe, showed little interest in building relations with the English. Eventually, the English burned down the tribe's village after an argument over a stolen silver cup.
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D it gives o henry a way to keep hey information about both main characters hidden until the end
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<em>After Twenty Years </em>is a short story written by O. Henry in which he talks about how divergent the paths of two good friends take after they lose touch for twenty years. The two friends, however, agree to meet at a restaurant that night after all those long years.
The author O. Henry narrates through a third-person perspective which helps to increase suspense by withholding vital information which gives the story a plot twist near the very end.