Read the excerpt from "The Oval Portrait," by Edgar Allan Poe. The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe. To all appearance it had been temporarily and very lately abandoned. We established ourselves in one of the smallest and least sumptuously furnished apartments. It lay in a remote turret of the building. Which statement best describes the effect of the narration on the story? The narration establishes an historically significant setting. The narration establishes a lavish, impressive setting. The narration establishes a forsaken, foreboding setting. The narration establishes a dangerous, condemned setting.

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Brooks Simpson

5 November, 23:20

Read the excerpt from "The Oval Portrait," by Edgar Allan Poe. The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe. To all appearance it had been temporarily and very lately abandoned. We established ourselves in one of the smallest and least sumptuously furnished apartments. It lay in a remote turret of the building. Which statement best describes the effect of the narration on the story? The narration establishes an historically significant setting. The narration establishes a lavish, impressive setting. The narration establishes a forsaken, foreboding setting. The narration establishes a dangerous, condemned setting.

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The narration establishes a forsaken, foreboding setting.

The narrator describes the house as being a pile of "gloom and grandeur" and mentions that it seems to have been "very lately abandoned". This means that the setting is gloomy-dark and with a feeling of a little creepiness, but huge. Being abandoned also makes the setting feel foreboding--a little frightening--because the reader wonders why the owners left it.