Some of the elements which can be considered to be gothic in "the pit and the pendulum" are darkness, internal struggle, horror and terror experienced by the main character, lack of freedom, torture, etc.
I believe the answer is both the speech and poem are equal when it comes to use of pathos because throughout both of them, they use emotional words to play with the reader's heartstrings.
A neutral sentence is a sentence or statement that is intended to just state facts, in a way that everyone who had been there would be required to agree that it did nothing more than stating the facts. In other words, these statements don’t mean anything. You do not make any stand. It is just reporting the facts which are subjected to approval or disapproval.
