Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.
Read this excerpt 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 will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my
senses - not destroyed - not 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? Hearkenl and observe how healthily -- how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my braln; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Pass
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
eyel 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 s
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
conflict. Based on this excerpt, this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in
so what is the answer i don't see it
the rising action.
To determine the correct answers, let's analyze the given excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. The narrator states that they are "nervous" and "dreadfully nervous," but they question why others believe they are mad. The sense of hearing is emphasized, with the narrator claiming they can hear everything from heaven to hell. The narrator becomes haunted by an idea in their brain, even though there are no specific objects or passages involved. They have a strange obsession with the old man's vulture-like eye and eventually decide to take his life to rid themselves of it.
Now, based on this information, let's answer the questions:
1. In these opening lines, the author is presenting a conflict. The conflict arises from the narrator's intense obsession with the old man's eye, leading them to contemplate killing him. Therefore, the correct answer is: conflict.
2. The stage of the plot in which this excerpt is most likely to occur is the rising action. In the rising action, the conflict of the story is introduced, and tensions start to build. Since the narrator is expressing their obsession and contemplating taking the old man's life, it suggests that this is not the climax or the resolution of the story. Therefore, the correct answer is: rising action.
So, the correct answers are:
1. conflict
2. rising action