Question

Read the following passage from "Black Cat."

"It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itself—to offer violence to its own nature—to do wrong for the wrong's sake only—that urged me to continue and finally to consummate the injury I had inflicted upon the unoffending brute."

What language convention has the author used with the underlined words to create suspense and tension?

Absolute phrases

Infinitive phrases

Fragments

Series of adjectives