Select the correct answer.
Read this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat."
The Black Cat
by Edgar Allan Poe (excerpt)
For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen. I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it.
in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet mad am I not-and very surely do I not dream. But tomorrow I die, and to-
day I would unburthen my soul. My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment a series of
mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified-have tortured-have destroyed me. Yet I will not attempt to
expound them. To me, they have presented little but Horror--to many they will seem less terrible than barroques. Hereafter, perhaps
some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the common-place-some intellect more calm, more logical and far less
excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural
causes and effects
Which words from the passage are representative of the vocabulary commonly used in Gothic literature?
A
plainly, succinctly, logical
B.
terrified tortured phantasm
c.
D.
wild, intellect excitable
dream succession, natural
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