Which quotation from "the black cat" best supports the inference that the cat represents the narrator’s sense of guilt?
a. “for months i could not rid myself of the phantasm of the cat; and, during this period, there came back into my spirit a half-sentiment that seemed, but was not, remorse."
b. "i had so much of my old heart left, as to be at first grieved by this evident dislike on the part of a creature which had once so loved me."
c. “…to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight—an incarnate night-mare that i had no power to shake off—incumbent eternally upon my heart! ”
d. “ wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise.”

Use morphology and syntax to make grammatical sense of the following sentence (mark all that the ova of all mammals except the monotremes undergo holoblastic segmentation. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a plural noun. the suffix -ic indicates that holoblastic is an adjective. the suffix -ation in the word segmentation is a noun-forming suffix denoting a process. the -s inflection indicates that monotremes is a possessive noun.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

In the poem i felt a funeral, in my brain what rhyme scheme does the poet use and how does it contribute to the poem?