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Question 4 • English Language Arts 11

Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher." I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in the unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down -- but with a shudder even more thrilling than before -- upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge. How does this excerpt provide information about the narrator of the story?

Answer
A
It provides an inference drawn by the narrator.
B
It describes what the narrator experiences in the story.
C
It describes what the narrator knows from his past.
D
It provides a criticism voiced by the narrator.
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