Question

What is the primary impact of the excerpt?
It creates an anxious feeling.
It dramatizes an exhausted feeling.
It establishes a neutral feeling.
It conveys a content feeling.

I looked upon the scene before me-upon the mere house, and the simple landscape
features of the domain-upon the bleak walls-upon the vacant eyelike windows-upon
a few rank sedges-and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees-with an utter
depression of soul, which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly
than to the afterdream of the reveler upon opium-the bitter lapse into everyday
life-the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a
sickening of the heart-an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of
the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it-I paused to
think-what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of
Usher?

Answer 1

EDGAR ALLEN POE! :DDDD

Answer 2

It's basically asking what you think the passage is meant to make the reader feel.

So how did you feel reading this?

Answer 3

at first i was think content..

Answer 4

o_o

No... xD

Answer 5

and then i kept reading

Answer 6

is it A?

Answer 7

Yes :)

Answer 8

thank you! can you help with a few more?

Answer 9

Sure, but please create a new post for each question. :)

Answer 10

actually its just one more and its apart of the passage so i'm going to post it here.

Answer 11

alright xD

Answer 12

Which of the following statements best paraphrases the second sentence of the excerpt above?

I was depressed by the house and couldn't ignore
the feeling.
I was saddened by the house and began to see it differently.
I was confused by the house and began to think it was imaginary.
I was annoyed by the house and began to believe it was alive.

Answer 13

This sentence?
"There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart-an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime."

Answer 14

I suppose so. I'm having trouble interpreting what the second sentence is haha

Answer 15

Well I just need to know what sentence it is first before I translate to you.
Don't want to give you the wrong one xD

Answer 16

Well the answer options says something about a house..

Answer 17

Hmm

"There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart-an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime."

*I was depressed by the house and couldn't ignore the feeling.
*I was saddened by the house and began to see it differently.
*I was confused by the house and began to think it was imaginary.
*I was annoyed by the house and began to believe it was alive.

Answer 18

"an iciness" - feeling cold inside
"a sinking .... sickening of the heart" - sudden anxiety
"an unredeemed dreariness of thought" - again, sudden anxiety
"no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime" - you can't will it away with your imagination

So what do you think? xD

Answer 19

depressed or saddden

Answer 20

No xD

Answer 21

Close though.

Answer 22

Ok to sum it up:
He feels a sudden negative feeling - anxious, uneasy, nervous - and he can't shake it from his mind.

So... what do you think?

Answer 23

Well if it isnt sad or depression I would think it would be confused (like i said earlier but deleted it)

Answer 24

wait... you said depressed
YES
omg I'm sorry D:

Answer 25

hahah its okay i was starting to get confused myself

Answer 26

lol

Answer 27

I'm sorry > <;