How does hyperbole best affect the meaning of this sentence from the passage?
Once more that steady pull began, and once more I lay torpid a
century of dragging seconds till my breast was naked again.
A). It reveals that the narrator is asleep and lying still
when the blanket comes off.
B). It shows that it takes merely a few moments for the
blanket to come off the narrator.
C). It highlights the terror the narrator feels as the
blanket falls from his body.
D). It illustrates how long it takes for the blanket to fall off
the narrator.

answer: "the beating heart symbolizes the narrator's conscience, or his sense of guilt and wrongdoing" so its b

explanation:

"to look at him, or hear him describe it, he had no guilt. however, poe decided to symbolize this man's subconscious guilt through the heartbeat."

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.