Multiple choice: please select the best answer and click "submit." read this passage from "the tell-tale heart": the old man was
dead. i removed the bed and examined the corpse. yes, he was stone, stone dead. i placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes. there was no pulsation. he was stone dead. his eye would trouble me no more. what effect does poe create by repeating words and phrases in the passage? a. a sense of doom, as if reality is pounding on the narrator
b. a sense of relief, as if the story is finally reaching its conclusion
c. a sense of calm, as if the narrator finally understands what he must do
d. a sense of irony, as if the narrator realizes he is doing something wrong
