Fall of the House of Usher, excerpt
By Edgar Allan Poe

Upon my entrance, Usher rose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuyé1 man of the world. A glance, however, at his countenance convinced me of his perfect sincerity. We sat down; and for some moments, while he spoke not, I gazed upon him with a feeling half of pity, half of awe. Surely, man had never before so terribly altered, in so brief a period, as had Roderick Usher! It was with difficulty that I could bring myself to admit the identity of the wan being before me with the companion of my early boyhood. Yet the character of his face had been at all times remarkable. A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy; hair of a more than web-like softness and tenuity;—these features, with an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up altogether a countenance not easily to be forgotten. And now in the mere exaggeration of the prevailing character of these features, and of the expression they were wont to convey, lay so much of change that I doubted to whom I spoke. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous lustre of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its Arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity.

In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy—an excessive nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter, than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision to that species of energetic concision—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation—that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance.
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Which words from the text best describe Usher's appearance? (5 points)

Struck with an incoherence
Alternately vivacious and sullen
A want of moral energy
Ghastly pallor of the skin

Answer:

Ghastly pallor of the skin

Explanation:

The narrator states that when he saw Usher, he was startled by his appearance, because in addition to having his hair disheveled and his face down, he presented "Ghastly pallor of the skin" which was one of the main reasons that made the narrator so uncomfortable with what I was seeing. We can see, then, that Usher was not in good health, both mentally and physically.

"Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story written by Edgar Alan Poe and tells how Usher's house was languishing just like him, presenting a terrifying, hideous, evil and uncomfortable atmosphere and appearance.

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Write an argumentative essay for or against maintaining traditional coming-of-age ceremonies, such as a bar mitzvah or a q

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What is the name for a long speech given by a character alone on stage, meant to
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What is the best correction for the confusing pronoun in this passage?
Annabelle got off her bike and grabbed hold of the dog. There was a
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B. Change "it" to "the dog."
C. Change "its" to "her."
D. Change "her" to "hers."

Read the incomplete line of poetry, and complete the line using iambic pentameter.

His art inspires

A. brilliance from all people
B. kindness despite circumstance
C. the melodies of young hearts
D. the song within my soul

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When Odysseus finally returned home, he found his house overrun with
A)
suitors wanting to marry his wife
B)
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C)
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D)
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Based on details in "Washed-up Plastics Become Art With a Vital Message," what can be inferred about how people are responding to the problem of pollution?


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A.The author's education did not fully prepare him for living in the
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B.The author was better at sports than at academics while growing
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Students in England are required to attend school through the
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Where should the dash(es) go in this sentence?
Colin bounced the tennis ball twice and cocked his racket behind his shoulder but his heart
wasn't in it.
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wasn't in it.
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Which quotation correctly uses an ellipses?
“The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above. . . .
“The brave men . . . who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to detract.”
“The brave men . . . who struggled here. . . .”
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When going out the door, a large butterfly fluttered past me.

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When I was going out the door, a large butterfly fluttered past me.
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Read the excerpt from "Mami and Papi."

“Do as I say!” Mami ordered. Still, Papi kept his back to us. I plunked the can full of nails down hard, willing him to hear and tell me to stay, but he didn’t. I dawdled after Mami down the three steps into the yard. Delsa and Norma, my younger sisters, took turns swinging from a rope Papi had hung under the mango tree.

“Why can’t they help with the kindling?” I pouted.

Mami swatted the side of my head. “Don’t talk back,” she said. “You girls keep away from the house while your father is working,” she warned as we walked by my sisters having fun.

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A. individual vs. society

B. individual vs. self

C. individual vs. individual

D. individual vs. nature

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OB.
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Lester, the foreman, came to check on the fence I'd been building.
"Having any trouble?"
"I guess not. Except that the sun is about 16 feet over my head."
Lester chuckled. That was his kind of humor. Then he got pacing around. He looked down the fence row to see how straight it was. He
checked the oil in the tractor and adjusted the attachment that drilled the post holes.
"Got a pinch bar out here?"
"Yeah. It's back where I used it last, about four posts down."
Lester got back in his truck and leaned out. "Now listen, son. You should spend the rest of the afternoon deciding if you want to work on this
ranch any more. If you do, you're going to have to take those last twenty fence posts out. Before you do that even, you're going to have to put oil in
that tractor, and get your tools where you can work with them. That includes your hammer which seems to have been thrown over by that stump.
And it's none of my business, but I'd recommend you wear those leather gloves we gave you. Work is hard enough without feeling sorry for yourself
'cause you got blood running out of broken blisters."
He put the truck in gear and drove off.
Which best describes Lester?
1. mean and bossy
2. stubborn and lazy
3. fair and demanding
4. friendly and whimsical