1) Which statement best expresses the theme of this passage? A)
Women are often put into the position of being more
rational than men in certain situations.
Societal expectations can feel constricting to some
B)
people who want to be free and independent.
The economic inequality present in nineteenth-
century American society is surely leading to a
financial meltdown.
Parents of young couples are often frustratingly
D) supportive of young couples trying to make their way
in the world.
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Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning