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.
The answer is C ...
C.
It communicate the jargon of riverboat pilots.
While there are many different sound devices that can be used in poetry, such as near rhyme (sounds are similar but not exact), alliteration (same beginning sounds), this one is onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is using words to suggest a sound. This can also be words like whispering, sizzle, thump, clang, etc. Using onomatopoeia allows you to imagine what it would sound like if you were present (this is part of imagery).
Answer:
A.
Explanation:
"In this essay, I will" is usually followed by listing the stuff that appears in an essay.