What do Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Eaton Stannard Barrett’s The Heroine, and Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey have in common? A. The authors wrote them in the style of the Romantic period with a focus on the natural world.
B. The parodies ridicule the themes and conventions of novels from the Romantic period.
C. The authors wrote them in verse even though their preferred writing style was prose.
D. The parodies deal with the Gothic themes of fading beauty and damsels in distress.
E. The parodies ridicule the themes, elements, and conventions of Gothic literature.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.