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English, 31.07.2019 21:50 ashmarie69

Read this line from "the fall of the house of usher" by edgar allen poe: the silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, i could not, even with effort, connect its arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. which pair of words from the sentence above gives clues to the meaning of the word gossamer? question 7 options: 1) fell, simple 2) grow, humanity 3) silken, floated 4) unheeded, wild

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