Read the following excerpt. Then answer the questions.
I looked upon the scene before me-upon the mere
house, and the simple landscape features of the domain-
upon the bleak walls-upon the vacant eyelike windows-
upon a few rank sedges-and upon a few white trunks of
decayed trees-with an utter depression of soul, which I
can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than
to the afterdream of the reveler upon opium-the bitter
lapse into everyday life-the hideous dropping off of the
veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the
heart-an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no
goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the
sublime. What was it-I paused to think-what was it that
so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of
Usher?
Use the passage to answer the question.
Which technique does the author use in this excerpt?
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persuasion
information
description
interpretation