14. what does the phrase "untenanted by any tangible form in para
intruder?
a. the intruder has no physical form and there
physical form and therefore cannot be restrained, which makes it similar
to death and disease.
b. the intruder is able to vanish whe
truder is able to vanish when it is attacked, which implies that it comes from anoth
world, possibly the land of the dead.
c. the phrase conveys the extreme violence with
veys the extreme violence with which the revelers handle the intruder, who is
seemingly left without a body.
meruders body consists of disease-ridden vapors, which the prince and other revelers
unwittingly release by attacking it.

a. The intruder has no physical form and therefore cannot be restrained, which makes it similar  to death and disease.

Explanation:

Edger Allen Poe's short story The Masque of the Red Death shows Prince Prospero attempting to avoid the Red death that plagues everyone and everywhere. He holds a masquerade ball in his alley, where all the rich and noblemen were holed up in order to avoid being infected.

The given phrase if from paragraph 14 where Prince Prospero encountered the "intruder". But it only killed him, for the Intruder seems to have no form or shape, "Untenanted" by a definitive size or entity. This signifies that the intruder has no physical form, thus impossible to be restrained. This also implies that it is similar to death and disease, for they both have no physical form and can be upon anyone.

Thus, the correct answer is option a.