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Read the passage. [The] Inconstant Lover … found himself in the arms of the pale ghost of her whom he had deserted. … [The] sinful founder of his race … clothed like the ghost in Hamlet, in complete armor … was seen at midnight, by the moon’s fitful beams, to advance slowly along the gloomy avenue. The shape was lost beneath the shadow of the castle walls … In Mary Shelley’s introduction to Frankenstein,which characteristic of Gothic literature is found in the ghost stories that she reads with her friends? whimsical elements and fantastic settings tragic characters and complicated plots heroic characters and engaging plots supernatural elements and mysterious settings

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The answer would be the last one supernatural elements and mysterious setting.
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supernatural elements and mysterious settings

Gothic literature is not positive. It has gloomy settings, misshapen people, and dark internal conflicts. Options 1 and 3 are not indicative of the gothic genre. In the ghost story from the selection, there is the mention of a ghost which is a supernatural element. The setting is also described as a gloomy avenue with shadows - mysterious!
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