Read the excerpt from an essay about the red wolf.The red wolf, a native of the southern United States, is on the brink of extinction. Its status on the critically endangered list suggests a dire circumstance, despite efforts to restore its population. Its threats include hunting, new construction, and death by motor vehicle. But the most pervasive hindrance to the restoration effort is human ambivalence. Few are willing to serve as defenders of the ‘big bad wolf,’ but the red wolf is in dire need of human assistance. People must disregard this misnomer and offer a measure of human kindness and consideration to this graceful creature.How does the author's word choice affect the tone of the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher."The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death. We replaced and screwed down the lid, and, having secured the door of iron, made our way, with toil, into the scarcely less gloomy apartments of the upper portion of the house. Which statement best describes how Poe develops a specific element of American Gothic fiction in the excerpt?
Read this Herman Melville excerpt from "Introduction to Dark Romanticism: American Gothic."[I]n the great Sperm Whale, this high and mighty god-like dignity inherent in the brow is so immensely amplified, that gazing on it, in that full front view, you feel the Deity and the dread powers more forcibly than in beholding any other object in living nature.Which Dark Romantic theme is reflected in the excerpt?
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