Read this excerpt from "the world on turtle's back."without knowing it, the right and left-handed twins built balance into the world. the plant-eating animals created by the right-handed twin balanced out the meat-eating animals created by the left-handed twin. and so the world thrived, and this was good. which statement best describes the purpose of this excerpt? a. to describe who created plant- and meat-eating animalsb. to explain that some animals are good and others are evilc. to explain how balance came to exist in the natural worldd. to describe two different kinds of animals found in the

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