Based on the details in the excerpt, what is the primary purpose of this passage?
O to amuse
to inform
O to thrill
O to warn
Read the excerpt from "The Masque of the Red Death"
by Edgar Allan Poe.
But these other apartments were densely crowded, and
in them beat feverishly the heart of life. And the revel
went whirlingly on, until at length there commenced the
sounding of midnight upon the clock. And then the music
ceased, as I have told; and the evolutions of the waltzers
were quieted; and there was an uneasy cessation of all
things as before. But now there were twelve strokes to
be sounded by the bell of the clock; and thus it
happened, perhaps, that more of thought crept, with
more of time, into the meditations of the thoughtful
among those who reveled. And thus, too, it happened,
perhaps, that before the last echoes of the last chime
had utterly sunk into silence, there were many
individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to
become aware of the presence of a masked figure which

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft.a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring.what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman.a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes.a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit.a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.