Read the excerpt from "The Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar Allan Poe.
Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates, yet I really knew very little of my friend. His reserve had been always excessive and habitual.
What does this excerpt reveal about the narrator of the story?
It describes what the narrator knows from his past.
It describes what the narrator experiences in the story.
It provides an inference drawn by the narrator.
It provides a criticism voiced by the narrator.
Which best describes the theme Melville develops in this excerpt from the chapter?
obsession
optimism
love
loss
Which best describes the purpose of the words “meagre,” “scaffold,” “stern,” and “punishment of death”?
They impart a judgmental, reproachful mood.
They impart a gloomy and woeful mood.
They establish the municipal setting of the town square.
They establish the boisterous setting at the scaffold.