What effect does withholding further details about the narrator's situation have on the reader? What new details about the narrator's situation are revealed in lines 93–100? Why might Poe have wanted to delay telling readers what the narrator's surroundings look like?

Why does the narrator of the war of the worlds use such precise and scientific language? o a. to make the reader question the narrator's intelligence o o b. to establish the story's credibility o c. to explain the story from the martians' point of view o d. to show that the narrator is an average person