The introduction should convince the audience that your speech will be relevant and useful by providing a general overview of what's to come.
Answer:
The quotation from <em>The Black Cat</em> that best supports the inference that the narrator feels he deserves to be punished for his cruelty is <u>the third one</u>: <em>“...I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin…even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.”
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Explanation:
By reading these lines we can understand how <u>the speaker in conscious about the wrong he has done.</u> He knew what he was doing and knew that was wrong and did it anyways. <u>He knew it was a sin</u>, and a big one. So big that it was "<em>beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God</em>". This means that <em>he knew he deserved a punishment from God</em> that, even with His infinite mercy, wouldn't be able to forgive what he had done.
Answer:
The title of the novel isn't mentioned in the question.
Explanation:
Even though there isn't a novel to analyze, there are some concepts that can be defined:
A novel is type of narrative characterized by its length and it is complex because it doesn't focus on one conflict but in many of them; a novel usually deals with human experience through a series of events that are related between them.
On the other hand, a narrative arc is a term used to describe the progression of a complete story: it refers to the different parts of the narrative, which usually begins calmly, then there is a peak, and finally the conflict is solved.