AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Question
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I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition—for why should I not so term it?—served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis. This work exemplifies:
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Unity of effect
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Ratiocinactive effect
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Cataleptic effect
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Didactic effect
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The narrator expresses that the fear he experienced on entering the grounds intensified his desire to seek out more of that feeling, hence his looking into the tarn, as if he half-hoped to see something frightening.
Detailed explanation-2: -Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Detailed explanation-3: -“I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul.
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