In the excerpt from “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, the dire feeling is inspired by the house and landscape. The description of iciness, sinking, and dreariness suggests an unsettling atmosphere related to the House of Usher itself and its environment, which deeply unnerves the narrator.
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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?
the sight of Madeline Usher
the sight of Roderick Usher
the house and landscape
the meeting with the physician
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