Answer:
The fact that your calling the soul an imperial friend is personification because the soul is inanimate in a way and it sort of can't be your friend
Explanation:
I believe that your answer is the first option due to how late the crying is, and unlike in "The Tell-Tale Heart" where the heart is constant and represents the slow descent of madness, the cry of the cat only appears at the end.
The portion of the story where it shows the speaker's madness is actually his looking for and finding similarities in the second cat and wishing to kill it.
Hope this was helpful.
Answer:
A
Explanation:
A colon is used to demonstrate a list. In this case, you are listing the places where funding for libraries is not prioritized. Thus, it would be appropriate to insert a colon before it.