Directions Read the poem and answer the question. Ways by Jennifer Mavro Sometimes we cannot say what we mean Simply by speaking or writing. There are other ways than words. A gentle brush stroke whispers. Not so shy? Bright colors shout excitement! Pound clay to express yourself. The clay is willing To follow your every whim. It is as generous as the wood That allows you to break it For the sake Of saying what you mean Through sculpture. So I can give or take the pen Since words do have their limits. Yet, how else could I tell you this? I need this way To say what I mean. And I'm glad to have this choice And countless others that can match the moment And convey my mood and message.

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning