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Question 5 • English Language Arts 11

Which excerpt from the passage best exemplifies why Delilah is a traditional Southern gothic character?

Answer

The Blackwood Manor had always been a place of darkness and despair, its once-grand halls now crumbling into ruin.

But none were as haunted as Delilah Blackwood, the current mistress of the manor.

With her sunken eyes, pallid skin, and tangled black hair, she cuts an eerie, ghostly figure as she wanders the decaying halls of her once-grand ancestral home.

The manor itself seems to whisper dark secrets, the shadows shifting and writhing as if alive with malevolent spirits.

Explanation

Choice C best exemplifies Delilah as a Southern gothic character by describing her eerie appearance and placing her among the decaying halls of her ancestral home. Those details combine a haunting figure with a ruined, old Southern setting, both common features of Southern gothic fiction. Choice D describes the manor’s supernatural atmosphere rather than Delilah herself.

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