From edgar allan poe's "the black cat":
"for the most wild, yet most homely narrative which i am about to pen, i neither expect nor solicit belief. mad indeed would i be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. yet, mad am i not—and very surely do i not dream."
why is the passage an example of verbal irony?
the narrator is truthful
the narrator does not expect to believed
the narrator does not write his story
the narrator really is mad

The correct answer is B) the narrator does not expect to be believed.

The passage is an example of verbal irony because the narrator does not expect to be believed.

An author uses verbal irony when its words express something that is contrary to reality. We are talking about that the author is using sarcasm, writing something that is not believed, pretending to be true. That is why Poe wrote: "...I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it..."

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the story "The Black Cat" in 1845.

which of the following was specifically permitted by the emancipation proclamation?

free african americans were allowed to fight for the confederacy.

free african americans were allowed to enlist in the union army and navy.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to move to the north.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to become confederate citizens.

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