25 POiNts Read the excerpt from The People Could Fly.

Now the first time the buckras run Bruh Deer with the hounds, he didn't know nothing about them. And he just lies down in his bed in the thicket on the edge of the broom-grass field. But here come the hounds, and Bruh Deer so afraid and so, he jumps and he runs. And he gets away to the river first. Just as he ready to jump off the bluff above the river, he looks down and sees Bruh Alligator's two big eyes come rising out of the water. Bruh Alligator just waiting for him!

Based on the details in this excerpt, which statement best describes the setting of the story?

It is an area near a small farming town in the present-day United States.
It is an area near a muddy swamp where many people live.
It is an area deep in the country where many wild animals live.
It is an area deep in a US forest sometime in the future.

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