Read the excerpt from "a pair of silk stockings."
she sat herself upon a revolving stool before a counter that was comparatively deserted, trying to gather strength and
courage to charge through an eager multitude that was besieging breastworks of shirting and figured lawn. an all-gone
limp feeling had come over her and she rested her hand aimlessly upon the counter. she wore no gloves. by degrees
she grew aware that her hand had encountered something very soothing, very pleasant to touch. she looked down to
see that her hand lay upon a pile of silk stockings
which best describes the mood the author conveys?
a mood of surrender
a mood of confrontation
a mood of suspense
a mood of restlessness
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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