Question

Read this line from "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe:

The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its Arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity.

Which pair of words from the sentence above gives clues to the meaning of the word gossamer?

Question 7 options:

1) Fell, simple

2) Grow, humanity

3) Silken, floated

4) Unheeded, wild

Answer 1

In "The Fall of the House of Usher", by Edgar Allan Poe, the pair of words from the sentence that gives clues to the meaning of the word gossamer is option

The word gossamer means the thread that spiders weave to make the web. So the words that give us clue of this meaning are unheeded, that means something to which no attention is paid and wild that means uncontrolled.

Answer 2

The pair of words from the sentence above which gives clues to the meaning of the word gossamer is:

• D. Unheeded, wild

According to the given question, we are asked to state the pair of words from the sentence above which gives clues to the meaning of the word gossamer.

As a result of this, we can see that from the given sentence, there is the description of the gossamer as having a wild texture and this is shown to see that it does not pay attention and is wild which is why they are so effective for the spiders.

Therefore, the correct answer is option D

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