Read these stanzas from “robin hood and the beggar.” in this part of the ballad, robin hood’s men have found the beggar who fought with robin hood. the men are planning what to do with the beggar and his money.

how do these stanzas fit the characteristics of a ballad?

excerpt from “robin hood and the beggar”

they thought they would the money take,
come after what so may:
and then they would not bring him back,
but in that place him slay.

by that good robin would not know
that they had gotten coin;
it would content him for to show
that there they had him slain.

a.
each stanza contains a metaphor and simile.

b.
a subject is given human characteristics.

c.
there is a refrain between stanzas.

d.
there is a regular rhythm and rhyme scheme.

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning