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Dark Romanticism: American Gothic — Test

Question 25 • English Language Arts 11

Read the excerpt from “The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe. The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. What is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt?

Answer
A
It emphasizes the narrator’s spirituality.
B
It emphasizes the narrator’s mental illness.
C
It emphasizes the narrator’s strengths.
D
It emphasizes the narrator’s anger.