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Read the passage.

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?
In this excerpt from “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, what sight has inspired this dire feeling?

A) the meeting with the physician

B) the sight of Madeline Usher

C) the sight of Roderick Usher

D) the house and landscape

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stubbornwriter
The answer is D - the house and landscape, I read this story not long ago for my English class.

The correct answer is the following: option D. The dire feeling of the excerpt was inspired by the sight of the house and the landscape. "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1839.

"The Fall of the House of Usher" tells the story of an unnamed narrator who approaches  the house of Usher. This narrator observes that the house seems to have absorved an evil and diseased atmosphere its surroundings.

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