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Dark Hauntings: "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Question 7 • HVA 26-27 IM English ELA 11 A

Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of The Scarlet Letter.Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.Which best describes the effect of the words “ugly,” “overgrown,” “pig-weed,” and “unsightly vegetation”?

Answer
A
They impart an angry mood.
B
They impart a mysterious mood.
C
They establish a rural, agricultural setting.
D
They establish a rough, untamed setting. ✓ Correct
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