English, 27.10.2019 04:43 melissalo32y

Read this passage from "the black cat": the officers bade me accompany them in their search. they left no nook or corner unexplored. at length, for the third or fourth time, they descended into the cellar. i quivered not in a muscle. my heart beat calmly as that of one who slumbers in innocence. i walked the cellar from end to end. i folded my arms upon my bosom, and roamed easily to and fro. the police were thoroughly satisfied and prepared to depart. what does poe use to create the effect of time passing quickly in this passage?
a. short sentences
b. sensory imagery
c. parallel structure
d. figurative language

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Answer from: julio003620

The answer to this question is A. short sentences

Answer from: rafa53

a. short sentences

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Poe makes the impact of time passing rapidly by utilizing short sentences that accelerate the pace of the story.

Many things occur in this passage, however a lot of what happens is canvassed in single brief sentences. For example:

I walked the cellar from end to end.

These eight words propose that the storyteller strolled forward and backward a few times. He would not have been remaining toward one side of the basement, in any case however would have strolled to one end, at that point turned and strolled to the opposite end, and, since there was nothing to keep him at that finish of the basement, he would have needed to turn and walk back at least as far as where he had originally been standing.

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government is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

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the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

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