LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”
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“The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them.”
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“But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die!”
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“As the bell sounded the hour, there came a knocking at the street door.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which best summarizes the narrator’s argument in the third paragraph? He argues that he is not crazy because he has been very kind to the old man.
Detailed explanation-2: -floorboards in the old man’s room. Rising Action: Police arrive to investigate a scream heard in the night. The Narrator is so confident about his crime that he invites the police to sit in chairs on the floor above the very spot where the old man is buried.
Detailed explanation-3: -The climax in the story is when the narrator murders the old man. Suddenly, the narrator throws the old man on the floor of his bedroom and suffocates him with his mattress. He then chops his off his limbs and buries him under the floorboards. This is where the story develops.
Detailed explanation-4: -Q. Which passage below best represents the climax of “The Tell-Tale Heart”? “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”