Now it is time to independently read and reread the passage from Under the Mesquite e. Use a different reading speed each time you read it, and take notes on what you learn from the
passage at different reading speeds. For example, speed up to skim the text for key words.
Slow down to learn new information. Use the table to record your thoughts.
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Notes
Reading Speed
Very fast: Quickly
skim the text.
Fast: Read quickly,
looking for overall text
structures and theme.
Moderate: Read the
passage at your
normal reading speed.
Slow: Read slowly for
detail and new
information.
Read aloud: Try
reading the passage
aloud or have
someone else read it
to you.

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning