Read the sentence below and answer the following question:

. . and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy house of usher. i know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. —poe, "the fall of the house of usher"

in the bolded section, what is the benefit of using "i know not…" instead of "i don't know" or another more concise syntax?

it emphasizes the means of travel.

it establishes an earlier time period.

it puts more emphasis on the positive.

it suggests an uneducated narrator.

Some cultural backgrounds have different superstitions or customs, this can play a part in how they decide things. superstitions are important to a culture for example, an asian culture has a superstition about women putting their purses on the ground their money will be gone, therefore people in that culture try everything they can to not let their purse touch the ground in fear of it being true. also like how we avoid walking under ladders in fear of bad luck. customs may also play a key role a custom also know as a tradition, is something people in the culture have been doing for generations as a quick example, if a family has a necklace that the family's mother passes it on to her daughter in so on it's a custom in that family.

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