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read the passage from "to autumn."
then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
among the river sallows, borne aloft,
or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

which best identifies and interprets the use of the underlined poetic device? (the light wind lives or dies is the poetic device)

a. simile; the wind is like an unhealthy river in the summer
b. metaphor; the wind is blowing hard enough to cry mournfully
c. imagery; the fluttering gnats appeal to the reader's sense of smell
d. personification; the stillness and gusts of the wind are described as its life and death

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