Question

Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher."

I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in the unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down -- but with a shudder even more thrilling than before -- upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge.

How does this excerpt provide information about the narrator of the story?
It describes what the narrator knows from his past.
It describes what the narrator experiences in the story.
It provides an inference drawn by the narrator.
It provides a criticism voiced by the narrator.

Answer 1

It describes what the narrator experiences in the story.

Brief justification: The first-person narration recounts a sensory moment (reining the horse, gazing at the tarn, feeling a shudder), so it’s a direct description of the narrator’s immediate experience.