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>
Explanation:
It means to acknowledge what others believe, yet still believing in what you wish to believe in. Not bothering other people for what they believe in.
I don't know exactly but i believe the answer is d
In compound sentence, there are two independent clauses that are joined using a coordinator. While in complex sentence, there are two or more clauses with one essentially an independent clause while there can be on or more dependent clauses. The difference between compound and complex sentence is that there is no dependent clause in compound sentence and at least there is one dependent clause in complex sentence.