The author of "The Black Cat" uses flashback to tell the story. Which passage from the story can only be used because of this st
ructure? A. Yet, mad am I not and very surely do I not dream. (B.) In their consequences, these events have terrified have tortured have destroyed me.
C. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not?
D. Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the common–place . . .
(ANSWER IS (B.) In their consequences, these events have terrified have tortured have destroyed me.
Answer: B. In their consequences, these events have terrified have tortured have destroyed me.
A flashback is a scene that goes back in time from the current point of the story. The are used in order to fill in details that are necessary to understand for the present story. In this case, the author is saying that some events have caused him to be destroyed in the present. We can assume that the events happened in the past, and he is analyzing the consquences of them. By using flashbacks, the author is able to go back in time and tell us of these events.
