Rosemary Norris

English

10 December, 16:15

What is the effect of the narrator's descriptior

of Great-Aunt Gertrude's house when the

narrator first arrives at the home?

A) It leads readers to think that the

narrator is exaggerating based on

an eerie fairy tale her grandmother

told her.

B) It foreshadows for readers that the

house is the scene of a tragic

mystery the family cannot solve.

C) It increases the suspense for

readers about what the family will

find inside the aunt's home.

D) It causes readers to doubt the

narrator's perception since it is dark

and late at night when the family

arrives