What is the primary impact of the excerpt? it creates an anxious feeling. it dramatizes an exhausted feeling. it establishes a neutral feeling. it conveys a content feeling. i looked upon the scene before me-upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain-upon the bleak walls-upon the vacant eyelike windows-upon a few rank sedges-and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees-with an utter depression of soul, which i can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the afterdream of the reveler upon opium-the bitter lapse into everyday life-the hideous dropping off of the veil. there was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart-an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. what was it-i paused to think-what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the house of usher?

It creates an anxious feeling.First, because of the meaning of the word anxiety;distress or uneaiyness caused by fear.Fear is observed when the narrator speaks of  feelings such as .."iciness, sinking and sickening of the heart.."Apart from that ,the narrator expresses he is anxious by using the phrase..."so unnerved me.."It is clear that the simple view of the House of Usher brings a sense of overwhelming dread  in the narrator."..The features .." he describes with these articulate words connected to decadence and decline cause nothing but a feeling of anxiety.

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ian mortimer in his book "the time traveller's guide to elizabethan england" uses a narrative in his style, which successfully conveys a clear description of the life in england in the 16th century. he writes in second person, which makes it comfortable to reader and easy to understand, he captures the readers attention with views of the landscape, the streets, the people including rich and poor. he also depicts some cultural traits from how people behave, eat or what they wear. his descriptions range from the social, economical, the political power to the examples of the life of common people. it could be tell that this book is about social history rather than a   novel.