<u>Edgar Allan Poe The sinister and frightening tone indicates that this passage MOST likely belongs to which literary genre</u>-B) a suspense story
<u>The term that BEST describes the tone set by the passage's opening sentence</u>-(C) foreboding
Explanation:
The main characters of the story of "The Fall of the House of Usher" is the narrator, of the story that is Roderick Usher, and his sister Madeline Usher.
The mood of the story is depressing and talks about their fight with a deadly disease
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<u>Edgar Allan Poe The sinister and frightening tone indicates that this passage MOST likely belongs to which literary genre</u>-B) a suspense story
<u>The term that BEST describes the tone set by the passage's opening sentence</u>-(C) foreboding
Option 3: <u>The phrase acts as a noun that is the subject of the sentence.</u>
"Volunteering at the animal shelter in my neighborhood" is a gerund phrase (It begins with a gerund, the "ing" word, and includes others modifiers and objects), and gerund phrases always function as nouns. Therefore, the phrase in the passage acts as a noun, which at the same time is the subject of the sentence since it's what's being discussed.
I believe the missing excerpt is from Midsummer by Derek
Walcott, which is as follows:
With the stampeding hiss and scurry of green lemmings,
midsummer's leaves race to extinction like the roar
of a Brixton riot tunneled by water hoses;
they seethe toward autumn's fire—it is in their nature,
being men as well as leaves, to die for the sun.
So, based on the excerpt, the speaker thinks that the
riot was somewhat inevitable.
To add, Midsummer is a sequence of 54 lyrics that record one
year's passing in the poet's life from summer to summer.
