Answer:
C, because that's when he realizes that he loves Melissa.
Edgar Allan Poe has a unique and dark way of writing. His mysterious style of writing appeals to emotion and drama. Poe's most impressionable works of fiction are gothic. His stories tend to have the same recurring theme of either death, lost love or both.
The second part that begins with not the least all the way to perched above my chamber door because the raven was gentle and proper when flying and was like a lady or lord when he landed making him dignified and elegant.
Compare and contrast means to find the similarities between two variables, and then to find the differences between those same two variables.
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Your answer is D as it is an example of a simile.