Writing an Informative Essay about Heroic Qualities — Unit test
Question 21 • 2026 Summer School English Language Arts 7 (Credit Recovery)
Read the passage from “Edgar Allan Poe.”“In speaking of my mother you have touched a string to which my heart fully responds. To have known her is to be an object of great interest in my eyes. I myself never knew her—and never knew the affection of a father. Both died (as you may remember) within a few weeks of each other. I have many occasional dealings with Adversity—but the want of parental affection has been the heaviest of my trials.”
Answer
A
a cause of his dark themes.
B
an effect of his dark themes.
C
the central idea of his dark themes.
D
the relationships in his dark themes.
Explanation
Poe says he never knew his parents’ affection and calls that absence the heaviest of his trials. This painful experience could help explain the sadness and darkness in his writing, so it is a cause of his dark themes. It is not itself a description of the themes or of relationships in them.
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