C) We went to hear the man himself speak.
Himself is an intensive pronoun. Intensive and reflexive pronouns end use the object form of the pronoun and end in -self. Intensive pronouns are found immediately after the antecedent. In this case, after "man" because "himself" is intensifying "man".
(It means they're making loud shouts as they ask for ice cream.) "Clamor" comes from the same Latin root as some other words you already know: "exclaim" and "claim." ... "But the word 'clamor' doesn't add any meaning to the sentence from the story. Why didn't Poe just write, 'I replied to the yells'?"
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