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>
Summary. Dante's The Divine Comedy has intrigued critics and readers alike for several centuries. Virgil guides Dante through hell in Inferno, where sinners hopelessly endure contrabassoon as eternal punishment of their sins.
Answer:
The speaker returned to find Sam McGee alive and smiling.
Explanation:
The Cremation of Sam McGee is a poem written by Robert.
It is the story told by the poem speaker about a cold winter trip during the Klondike Gold Rush in Yukon, Canada. The speaker narrates a story of his friend Sam McGee who freezes to death near Lake Larbege.
Before Sam dies he gives a wish to not be buried out in the cold, he asks to be cremated instead. The speaker agrees and carries his body a long distance looking for where to burn Sam's body.
He finds one and starts the burning process only to find out that Sam was only frozen and is alive and well and only needed a some heat to defrost a little.
This excerpt from the "los Angeles Sunday Times" (June 1899) might reflect <span>society’s discomfort with women’s emerging independence in 1899 (option A). It is suggested that the author of the book (Kate Chopin) wrote an "</span>unhealthy introspective and morbid in feeling as that sort of woman must inevitably be".
