USA HISTORY

LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Poe and Hawthorne used elements common of the Gothic fiction such as sunny, optimistic settings.
A
true
B
false
C
maybe
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -They were radically, though not obviously different in their work and in the spring of their being. Both had an exquisite sense of the music of thought; both loved the mysterious and bizarre; both labored to paint the exceptional and dominate our intellects with an intimate sense of the spiritual and unseen.

Detailed explanation-2: -Initially, Poe wrote burlesques of the Gothic story, but soon began to write seriously in the Gothic vein. Gothic tales often involve circumstances of mystery and horror, a general atmosphere of gloom and doom, and elements like dungeons, ghosts, and decaying castles with secret passageways.

Detailed explanation-3: -Edgar Allan Poe used the literary device of setting to give a dark, threatening tone in the story by using three main elements. Time of day, mood and atmosphere, and population. All to which are very effective towards the story.

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