In American Gothic fiction the elements that can be found are:
1) eerie castles: old and large traditional castles are commonly found in Gothic fiction because they have secret passages, or rooms, hidden staircases, strange noises, mysterious echoes, creating a terrifying atmosphere.
2) Mysterious events: The atmosphere it is full of mystery, the reader does not know what is going to happen next and most of the times, a disappearance, murder or an inexplicable event happened.
3) Strange landscapes: Exotic settings are used to create horror and suspense, most of the times isolated places in the dark, covered by fog in the cold winter at night. For example, crumbling buildings in the middle of a forest.
4) Threatened heroines: Women facing danger, unable to defend themselves and suffering because they are alone or abandoned. They are often the main character of the story and the attention is on them.
5) Medieval settings: Medieval times were always associated with Gothic literature because of the dark, obscure period that represents.
Answer:
its A. Jorge understands that mother-daughter relationships can be complex.
Explanation:
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This is an example of a metaphor; a metaphor is a comparison
between to things that don’t seem alike. In this case attired (a synonym of dressed) is
used to compare the state of visible deep mourning of the woman the sentence is
talking about, with the act of wearing the mourning, and of course, you can’t
wear a feeling. The metaphor is used to highlight the fact that her mourning
was so deep that was actually visible, like a dress.
The rhetorical device that the author use in the line so the readers feel the terror that he experiences is : C. anticlimax
when the character's pocket got emptied out, readers expect something more important will drop. But it's only a piece of bread
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