Read the excerpt from Blanca Flor. [As soon as JUANITO is asleep, BLANCA FLOR gently puts his head down and leaves, taking the thimble
with her.]
The Narrator. When Juanito awoke, he frantically looked for the thimble and, not finding it, ran to the
lake. When he reached the lake, he stood at its banks in amazement. All the water was gone. He looked
over to the other part of the field, and there stood a lake where before there was nothing. He turned to
look for Blanca Flor, but instead there was Don Ricardo.
[DON RICARDO enters.]
4. Why does the author include a narrator at this point of the play?

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