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

Where does writer's block come from? briefly describe each of the four possible reasons that writer's block occurs. asap!

Time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differences in circumstances. there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke, the language in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of the same proverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand how this story can be applied to their own lives.

Which component of a rhetorical argument is missing from the chart above? a. civics (civos) b. ethics (ethos) c. patriotics (patros) d. histrionics (histros)