Which parts of this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" bring out a gloomy and oppressive mood?
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung
oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of
country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on within view of the melancholy
House of Usher. I know not how it was--but, with the first glimpse of the building a sense of insufferable
gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable: for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that hall pleasurable
because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the
desolate or terrible

Wha is"centrifugal bumble puppy "? why is it important for games to require a complication apparatus? (brave new world)

Read the excerpt from "save the redwoods."another, one of the finest in the grove, more than three hundred feet high, was skinned alive to a height of one hundred and sixteen feet from the ground and the bark sent to london to show how fine and big that calaveras tree was—as sensible a scheme as skinning our great men would be to prove their greatness. which  best  describes how the excerpt appeals to readers’ emotions? the excerpt provides facts about the tree, which impresses readers’ scientific minds. the excerpt describes how the tree traveled to london, which excites the readers’ sense of adventure. the excerpt compares the tree to a person, which makes readers feel sympathetic toward the tree. the excerpt explains how to skin a tree, which makes readers feel awed at the height of the tree.

According to the study, what made jonathan swift distrust the assumption most english people of his era made about the superiority of their own race and culture?