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.

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Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Which statement is an historical example that supports her thesis statement?