read the selection below from the short story "the pit and the pendulum" by edgar allan poe and answer the
question that follows.
amid the thought of the fiery destruction that impended, the idea of the coolness of the well came over my soul like balm. i
rushed to its deadly brink. i threw my straining vision below. the glare from the enkindled roof illumined its inmost recesses.
yet, for a wild moment, did my spirit refuse to comprehend the meaning of what i saw. at length it forced it wrestled its way
into my soul-it burned itself in upon my shuddering reason. o for a voice to speak! -oh, horror! -oh, any horror but this!
with a shriek i rushed from the margin and buried my face in my hands-weeping bitterly.
which word best describes the narrator in the passage above?
humorous
determined
frightened
insensitive

Use the drop-down menus to answer the questions. which group contributed about half its income in taxes? the aristocracy paid of its income in taxes.

Question 1 (1 point) five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the emancipation proclamation. this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. but one hundred years later, the negro still is not free. one hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still languished in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. and so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. in the first paragraph of this passage, which literary technique does mlk use? question 1 options: a. this is an example of personification because it compares segregation to being in chains. b. this is an example of hyperbole because it gives it gives human characteristics to segregation. c. this is an example of allusion because it references the language used in the emancipation proclamation, which freed slaves in 1863, 100 years before this speech was presented. d. this is an example of onomatopoeia because he uses the words seared and withering to describe the injustices experienced by african americans.

How were castas paintings used to stabilize a society?