20 points branliest

for the most wild, yet most homely narrative which i am about to pen, i neither expect nor solicit belief. mad indeed would i be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. yet, mad am i not—and very surely do i not dream.

why is the passage an example of verbal irony?

the narrator is truthful
the narrator does not expect to believed
the narrator does not write his story
the narrator really is mad

The narrator does not expect to believed.

Explanation:

Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat tells the unnamed protagonist's life which led up to his imprisonment. The man narrated how he ended up in the situation he is in now.

The given lines are the starting/ opening lines of the short story. In it, the speaker/ protagonist details how he is writing or narrating about his situation. But he admits he did not expect the readers to actually believe his tale, though that was the main reason he had written the whole story. So, the verbal irony is his written record while at the same time stating he did not expect us to believe what he's saying.

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