"Begone! Let it leak! I'm all aleak myself. Aye! leaks in
leaks! not only full of leaky casks, but those leaky casks
are in a leaky ship; and that's a far worse plight than the
Pequod's man. Yet I don't stop to plug my leak; for who can
find it in the deep-loaded hull; or how hope to plug it, even
if found, in this life's howling gale?"
What trait of Gothic literature does this passage have in common with Edgar
Allan Poe's "The Raven"?
O
A. An exploration of humanity's dark side
B. The extensive use of metaphor
C. A setting that is dark and foreboding
O
D. The use of dialogue to show character

Read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." and indeed there will be time to wonder, “do i dare? ” and, “do i dare? ” time to turn back and descend the stair, with a bald spot in the middle of my hair— [they will say: “how his hair is growing thin! ”] my morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, my necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin— [they will say: “but how his arms and legs are thin! ”] do i dare disturb the universe? in a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. which lines indicate that the speaker is concerned about what others think of him?