It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down - but with a shudder even more thrilling than before - upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?

Correct answer: B. A small mountain lake

  • A. A bird
  • B. A small mountain lake
  • C. A wide river
  • D. A high cliff

Explanation

A tarn is a small mountain lake, often formed in a hollow carved by glaciers. In Poe’s passage, it is the dark, still body of water beside the House of Usher.

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