What is the primary impact of the excerpt?

It creates an anxious feeling.

It dramatizes an exhausted feeling.

It establishes a neutral feeling.

It conveys a content feeling.

I looked upon the scene before me-upon the mere house, and the simple landscape

features of the domain-upon the bleak walls-upon the vacant eyelike windows-upon

a few rank sedges-and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees-with an utter

depression of soul, which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly

than to the afterdream of the reveler upon opium-the bitter lapse into everyday

life-the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a

sickening of the heart-an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of

the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it-I paused to

think-what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of

Usher?

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Marcel Coffey

12 October, 11:12

What is the primary impact of the excerpt?

It creates an anxious feeling.

It dramatizes an exhausted feeling.

It establishes a neutral feeling.

It conveys a content feeling.

I looked upon the scene before me-upon the mere house, and the simple landscape

features of the domain-upon the bleak walls-upon the vacant eyelike windows-upon

a few rank sedges-and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees-with an utter

depression of soul, which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly

than to the afterdream of the reveler upon opium-the bitter lapse into everyday

life-the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a

sickening of the heart-an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of

the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it-I paused to

think-what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of

Usher?

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Landin · Answer 1

In questions like this, we want to look for clues in the text that convey a feeling. In this passage there are a lot of words that paint a strong, negative feeling. It is easy to rule out the neutral and content choices. Finally, the language used leads us towards the "anxious feeling" response. Language like "utter depression of soul", "unnerved me", a sinking, a sickening of the heart" all refer to an internal discomfort, not a physical tiredness.