AnswersTBA WCA ELL English 12 - 1st 9 weeks 26-27Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” Answers

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Which excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" best illustrates that the narrator is unreliable?

A
“TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.”
B
“His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness, (for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers,) and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily.”
C
“Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief—oh, no!—it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe.”
D
“I smiled,—for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house.”
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Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart.”TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? 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. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

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It features a bright, inviting setting.
B
It explores fear and strong emotions.
C
It includes a supernatural creature.
D
It focuses on science and reason.

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