The belief that the natural world is filled with spirits is called animism.
The lines are narrated in what is known as free indirect speech, or at times called free indirect discourse. This is because the style combines the elements of a third person narration with a first person to describe the character's thoughts, feelings, or emotions.
1. The speaker is in his chamber late at night reading old books.
2. The speaker starts feeling drowsy when he hears a tapping at the window.
3. The speaker comforts himself into believing that the tapping sound is a visitor who has come to see him.
4. The speaker is surprised to find no one when he opens his door.
5. The speaker gets even more frightened when the curtains rustle.
6. The speaker hears a noise at the window and a raven flies in.
7. The speaker whispers the name "Lenore", and he hears the same name echoed back.
Answer:
What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!
There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a nght to impose a private will upon a fellow creature.
Explanation:
The two excerpts above impose a sense of knowledge, power and freedom. This is because we can see that the above excerpt shows a narrator free to act, feel and think according to his own conception and his own principles, using his own opinions. This ability is achieved when an individual is able to free himself from an interminably limiting and weighting oppression.
Either B or C. I think B.
