<span>In “The Pit and the Pendulum,”
by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator describes three ways the captors attempt to
kill him. He first encounters a pit that
he almost falls into because he is captive in an area of darkness and almost
falls in because he could not see where he was going. After not falling into the pit, he drinks
something that was poisoned/drugged and caused him to lose consciousness. When he wakes up, he finds he is tied to a
wooden base where a pendulum slowly swoops down to slice him open at the heart.
This is the second way he is almost killed.
He manages to just barely escape by rubbing some meat on his bonds, and
some rats eat through the bonds making them looser allowing him to escape. After he makes this escape, the third way he
is almost killed is by the fiery walls of his prison closing in on him, which,
he feels is his captor’s way of enticing him to jump into the pit in order to
avoid being crushed by fiery walls. </span>
<span>three ways the narrators captors attempt to kill him in "the pit and the pendulum" by edgar Allan Poe are:
1.is falling into a pit
2. is the pendulum way
3. was setting his chamber on fire
but eventually, the narrator managed to make the rats eat the ropes, freed himself from the bond, and run away from the tortutr chamber</span>
Just based off perusing the excerpt you gave, it appears that the answer is D. I'm assuming of course that the writer wanted to achieve something, rather than just "raise alarm".