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read this excerpt from “the tell-tale heart” by edgar allan poe. then fill in the blanks in the paragraph that follows.

true! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous i had been and am; but why will you say that i am mad? the disease had sharpened my senses — not destroyed — not dulled them. above all was the sense of hearing acute. i heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. i heard many things in hell. how, then, am i mad? hearken! and observe how healthily — how calmly i can tell you the whole story.

it is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. object there was none. passion there was none. i loved the old man. he had never wronged me. he had never given me insult. for his gold i had no desire. i think it was his eye! yes, it was this! he had the eye of a vulture — a pale blue eye, with a film over it. whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees — very gradually — i made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.

in these opening lines, the reader is presented with a narrator who wants to kill "the old man" because of his eye. the author uses the lines to present a conflict. based on this excerpt, this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in .
1.
a character versus self
a character versus nature
a character versus society

2.
the exposition
the climax
the falling action
the resolution

The answers are:

"In these opening lines, the reader is presented with a narrator who wants to kill the old man because of his eye. The author uses the lines to present a CHARACTER VERSUS SELF conflict. Based on this excerpt, this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in THE CLIMAX.

All of this because the idea entered in the man´s mind and haunted him day and night, that´s when the conflict with himself started.

And the exposition of the "Tell tale" is when the narrator insists that he´s not insane. The rising action is when he is gathering the courage to kill the old man. The climax is when he kills the old man. And the falling action is when the narrator hears the old man´s heart beating.

1. The author uses the lines to present a Character Versus self conflict.

2. Based on this excerpt, this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in the climax.

This excerpt has been taken from “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe where the author uses the lines to present a character versus self conflict as the narrator wants to kill the old man because of his eye and the old man was no one but him.

Following this excerpt, we can guess that this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in the climax which is the most important part of a story.

which of the following was specifically permitted by the emancipation proclamation?

free african americans were allowed to fight for the confederacy.

free african americans were allowed to enlist in the union army and navy.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to move to the north.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to become confederate citizens.

- "he is a very real person and his intent isn't to influence us vonnegut addresses this towards the end of the letter when he says, if we choose to curse, that is by our own individual means."