Me read this stanza from "the raven." back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, soon again i heard a tapping something louder than before. "surely," said i, "surely that is something at my window lattice; let me see, then, what thereat is and this mystery explore– let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; – 'tis the wind and nothing more." this stanza contributes to the suspense of the poem because a. the reader knows what is making the noise while the speaker does not. b. the speaker and the reader wait again to find out what is making the noise. c. the tapping gets louder, which foreshadows that the noise is made by a bird. d. the wind gets stronger and makes more noise against the speaker’s window.

answer is B. just took the test

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.