Analyzing the Structure and Elements of Poetry - Quiz - Level F Reread stanzas 5 and 6. Which statement BEST describes
Father William's response?
"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws
are too weak
For anything tougher than suet:
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and
the beak-
Pray, how did you manage to do it?"
He fondly remembers his days
as a lawyer, arguing cases in
court.
He offers wisdom to his son in
the form of a great
suggestion.
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the
law,
And argued each case with my wife:
And the muscular strength which it gave to my
jaw
Has lasted the rest of my life."
He makes a joke that his jaws
are strong from arguing with
his wifi
He provides a logical reason
for why he is able to eat a
bird's beak
"You are old," said the youth, "one would

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