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Read this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death and answer the question that follows
Here the case was very different, as might have been expected from the duke's love of the bizarre. The apartments were so irregularly
disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time. There was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards, and at each
turn a novel effect to the right and left in the middle of each wall, a tall and narrow Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor
which pursued the windings of the suite. These windows were of stained glass whose colour varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of
the decorations of the chamber into which it opened. That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example in blue-and vaidly blue wereits
windows. The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple. The third was green
throughout, and so were the casements. The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange-the fifth with white-the sath with violet. The
seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds
upon a carpet of the same material and hue... And thus were produced a multitude of gaudy and fantastic appearances.
What kind of writing does the excerpt represent?
OA xpository
OB descriptive
OC persuasive
OD argumentative