Read this excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. How does the situational irony of this excerpt affect "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
A) The narrator brags of his sharpened senses, but his "acute hearing" is ultimately his downfall.
B) The narrator's hatred of the old man is shown to be entirely rational and justified.
C) It explains why the narrator is so quiet around the old man as he lay sleeping.
D) The narrator thinks his hearing is very good, so it is surprising when he fails to hear the old man groan in his sleep.
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