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Read this excarpt from The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Then fill in the blanks in the paragraph that follows.
TRUE! nervous very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am: but why willyou say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my
sensesnot destroyednot dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I
heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily- how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain: but once conceived. it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion
there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his
eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me. my blood ran cold: and so
by degrees - very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.
In these opening lines, the reader is presented with a narrator who wants to kill "the old man" because of his eye. The author uses the
lines to present a
vconflict. Based on this excerpt. this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in

Answer 1

Based on this excerpt, this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in the old man's bedroom/house during the nighttime.

What is hyperbole?

A hyperbole is a type of figure of speech that uses exaggeration to create strong impressions. Example, that suitcase weighed a ton!. Here it doesn't mean that the suitcase weight a ton which is two thousand pounds but that it's very very heavy.

From the passage, "I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth". This means that the individual heard all that was said without missing any information.

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Answer 2

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