Read this excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. How does the situational irony of this excerpt affect "The Tell-Tale Heart"? A) The narrator brags of his sharpened senses, but his "acute hearing" is ultimately his downfall.
B) The narrator's hatred of the old man is shown to be entirely rational and justified.

C) It explains why the narrator is so quiet around the old man as he lay sleeping.

D) The narrator thinks his hearing is very good, so it is surprising when he fails to hear the old man groan in his sleep.

Hurry and ! easter wings by george herbert lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, though foolishly he lost the same, decaying more and more, till he became most poore: with thee o let me rise as larks, harmoniously, and sing this day thy victories: then shall the fall further the flight in me. my tender age in sorrow did beginne and still with sicknesses and shame. thou didst so punish sinne, that i became most thinne. with thee let me combine, and feel thy victorie: for, if i imp my wing on thine, affliction shall advance the flight in me. 14 select the correct answer. what does the structure of the poem as the outspread wings of a flying bird convey? a. the idea of victory in the second stanza of the poem b. the poet's wish to rise from the fallen state of humanity c. the overwhelming beauty of nature d. the effect of harmonious flight of birds