The correct answer that best describes the given excerpt above would be option B. The statement that best describes the impact of Poe's tone in the given excerpt above is that, Poe's melancholy tone emphasizes the grieving in the excerpt. In is a melancholic tone because based on the excerpt, (his) character had changed from having a positive one to a sadder one, so sadness is clearly shown in this excerpt.
The answer is B) Poe's melancholy tone emphasizes the grieving in the excerpt.
Explanation:
The excerpt we are analyzing here was taken from the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", by Edgar Allan Poe. The tone the author uses in the excerpt is one of melancholy. The narrator is describing his friend Usher's appearance. Usher has been greatly affected by his sister's mysterious death. Words such as "pallor", "ghastly", and "tremulous" remind readers of sickness and death, emphasizing the grieving Usher has been going through.
Somehow, the deceased sister comes back from the dead. By this point, Usher and the narrator have been affected by the melancholy of the house. In the end, the narrator is still able to flee the house before it collapses.
Simile is a figure of speech which compares one thing with another one. It is typically used to make descriptions more emphatic. Simile usually use the word 'like' or 'as' to draw comparison between two things that are been compared.
Fairfield is a town, so it would be very weird for a community pool to be bigger than it: all the other comparisons actually make a point, as the things compared are more similar
