Select the correct answer. e
Look at paragraphs 3-7. How does the pacing in paragraphs 3-7 create tension?
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ОА.
The incomplete statements in paragraphs 3, 5, and 6 are meant to slow the reader down and ease the
tension from one event to the next.
OB. The longer portions of text in this part of the story only contain background information and do not
contribute to the tension or suspense in the story.
OC. Paragraphs 4 and 7 provide clarification about whether Lemarchant is or is not sleeping, which reduces the
tension felt by both the narrator and reader.
OD. Paragraphs 3, 4, and 6 are longer, more detailed paragraphs while paragraphs 5 and 7 are brief and allow
the reader to take in the shocking information more quickly which helps to pace the tension the reader
feels.

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

What does the word sequence mean in paragraph 7 of the passage

Which is the most accurate definition of a clause? a) a clause is any group of two or more words. b) a clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb. c) a clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb that can stand alone. d) a clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb that cannot stand alone.