Read this sentence from the passage. When I opened my eyes this time, the clock said 6:20, so I had all the time in the world, and I knew just what to do with it! (paragraph 9) What effect does the exaggeration “all the time in the world” have on the text? Answer choices for the above question A. It describes the reason why the alarm clock continues to go back in time. B. It offers an explanation for the previously unexplainable events in the story. C. It provides a sense of hope that Sherry will not have to repeat the day again. D. It contrasts with the beginning of the story to show how Sherry’s situation changes.

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