How can a reader tell that the passage's narrator is TRUE!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had
been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? 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. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and
observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the
whole story.
Abe
unreliable2
O The narrator claims that he is very intelligent, but he
O The narrator insists that he can speak calmly, but
is clearly very young and naive.
his manner of speaking suggests that he is not at all
calm.
-"The Tell-Tale Heat,"
Edgar Allan Poe
The narrator says that he is a good listener, but he
refuses to listen to anyone else's version of the
story,
n m

Is "they" an unstressed or stressed syllable?

Identify the participle or infinitive phrase in the sentence below

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion