N"the pit and the pendulum," the narrator explains, "i proceeded for many paces; but still all was blackness and vacancy." how does poe's inclusion of this description affect the story?

"such has been the patient suffrence of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to after their former systems of government. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of reapeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishedment of an absolute tyranny over these states." which statement best describes the excerpt