Answer:
“TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
Explanation:
According to the excerpt from "The Tell-tale Heart", the narrator tries to convince the readers that he is not a mad man, even though his words and behavior seem to prove otherwise.
The narrator asserts that although he is nervous, he isn't a madman and it is buttressed in his statement where he said, “TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
Answer:
The author of "The Fun They Had" was Isaac Asimov. Asimov was an extremely prolific science fiction author. Over his lifetime, he wrote/edited over 500 books.
Explanation:
Pretentious is synonymous to C. SHOWY.
You are pretentious when you attempt to impress people by affecting greater importance or talent than is actually possessed.
Other synonyms of pretentious aside from showy are:
ostentatious, overambitious, pompous, grandiose, extravagant, flamboyant, overblown, magniloquent, and many more.
absurd is synonymous to foolish or unreasonable
argumentative is synonymous to quarrelsome, contrary
annoyed is synonymous to irritated, irk
