Question

Read this passage from Poe's "The Black Cat":
But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the Arch-
Fiend! No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into
silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! -
by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child,
and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous
scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman - a howl - a wailing
shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have
arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the damned
in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation.
How does the pacing of this passage build suspense?
O A. The fast pace sets the morbid tone of the story as the narrator reveals
that he has murdered his wife.
OB. The slow pace builds tension as the narrator begins to realize that
something is alive within the wall
C. The fast pace builds tension as the narrator quickly realizes that he has
bricked up cat within the wall.
D. The slow pace foreshadows that the narrator has done something wrong
and will pay for his crimes,

Answer 1

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