Read the excerpt from “The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe.

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.

What is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt?
a. It emphasizes the narrator’s strengths.
b. It emphasizes the narrator’s spirituality.
c. It emphasizes the narrator’s anger.
d. It emphasizes the narrator’s madness.
Anwser is D