The correct answer is swords.
The Anglo-Saxons frequently used kennings in their work. A kenning is a mini riddle, usually hyphenated, that was used to describe something. For example, the kenning "she-wolf" was used to describe Grendel's mother, as it highlights her ferocity.
Here, the kenning "battle-shaft" is used to describe their swords, which must wait to be used until the deliberations have finished. This is an appropriate kenning for a sword because swords (a) are used in battle and (b) are long and narrow.
The point of view in this excerpt is definitely third person, because nouns such as Dorothy, and pronouns such as she are used throughout to indicate third person.
However, if you also need to decide whether it is limited or omniscient, I'd choose limited - because we can only see what she is doing, and not what she is thinking and feeling.
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The main idea in Tell Tale Heart is that the author tried to create a horror story, in the story, the author killed the old man and think the would get away with it with it, but his lies eventually turned him into a monster
