What effect do the words with strong connotations have on this passage?
The gloom inside the house enveloped me as I stepped
through the door. All around I could hear stealthy
footsteps and ominous creaking. As an unearthly cry
filled the room. I let out my own cry of dread.
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his humanity shines from every page as he bears witness to the tragedy which befell the jewish race at the hands of the nazis. wiesel was a romanian-born jew whose home town of sighet was occupied by the hungarians for most of the second world war. in may 1944, all the jews in the area were forced into cattle wagons and transported to auschwitz.

the words "strangest" and "unusual" suggest (:

the answer a: perseverance !