The answer would be A. The rest of the sentence is in past tense, so that would also be.
Answer:
Know the story well
Understand the character traits of the people involved.
Use colorful words and expressions to reveal feelings and attitudes.
Pause slightly to emphasize a word or phrase of special effect.
Use pitch and stress to lend variety and meaning to your voice
Interjunction
This is due to it being a statement
This is actually based from <span>Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”. And based on this excerpt, what the narrator is doing in this moment is that he is was reminiscing of what had happened in the past. Hope this answers your question. </span>