Analyze Poe's word choices in this excerpt from "The Black Cat. Pay particular attention to use of the word "seduced. The tone exhibited this excerpt can be described as embarrassed
arrogant
passing blame
guilt ridden

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

the underlined phrase is an example of : understatment

i believe the answer is d : )

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.