Read the excerpt from "The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture." “[T]here is a secret about one of my rooms on which I feel disposed to try an experiment. So, gentlemen, none of you shall know who has the haunted chamber, until circumstances reveal it. I will not even know it myself but will leave it to chance and the allotment of the housekeeper. At the same time, if it will be any satisfaction to you, I will observe, for the honor of my paternal mansion, that there’s scarcely a chamber in it but is well worthy of being haunted.”
What technique does Irving use to build suspense in the excerpt?
1. The pace of the story quickens.
2. The word choice darkens the tone.
3. Odd characters are introduced.
4. Setting details are intentionally omitted.

What is imagery in a play? o o o o a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two different things a literary device that uses vivid language that appeals to the senses a figure of speech in which objects, such as trees, have human attributes a literary device that uses things like animals to express abstract ideas

0313hethis excerpt was written by olaudah equiano, anwhat is the primary purpose of this passage? enslaved african who was taken to barbados. read thepassage, then answer the question.o to create sympathy for enslaved workerstheir huts, which ought to be well covered, and the place ! o to demonstrate a typical day of labor on a plantationdry where they take their little repose, are often opensheds, built in damp places, so that when the pooro to compare the living conditions of plantationowners and enslaved workerscreatures return tired from the toils of the field, theycontract many disorders, from being exposed to theto show ways housing on plantations could havedamp air in this uncomfortable state.been improved-sugar changed the world,marc aronson and marina budhosintrodone

How does frost use ambiguity to present his message about walls and neighbours what evidence supports the idea that the speaker believes good fences make good neighbors what details suggest the opposite