The Fall of the House of Usher
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The radiance was that of the full, setting, and blood-red moon which now shone vividly through that once barely-discernible fissure of which I have before spoken as extending from the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base. While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened—there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind—the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight—my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder—there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters—and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the “House of Usher.”
A. creating a parallel between the end of the Usher family line and the house’s destruction
B. introducing the the reader to the dark setting for the story
C. arguing that old, aristocratic families often let their houses fall into disrepair
D. confirming that the narrator is paranoid and unreliable
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