Read the excerpt from Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher."
Shaking this off
with a gasp and a struggle, I uplifted myself upon the pillows, and, peering earnestly within
the intense darkness of the chamber, hearkened --
know not why, except that an instinctive spirit prompted
me - to certain low and indefinite sounds which came, through the pauses of the storm, at long intervals. I
knew not whence. Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror, unaccountable yet unendurable, I threw on
my clothes with haste.
Which word from this excerpt could be used to argue that the narrator is unreliable?
• "Shaking" suggests the narrator's nervousness
"Struggle" suggests the narrator's weakness.
© "Indefinite" suggests the narrator's lack of knowledge.
• "Overpowered" suggests the narrator's lack of control.
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