The Pit and the Pendulum part 2 questions 1. What effect does withholding information about the narrator's situation have on the reader?

2. What new details are revealed about the narrator's situation in lines 93-100?

3. Why do you think Poe might have waited to give these details to the reader?

4. Review lines 102-103 and identify phrases that contribute to Gothic themes.

Choose one of the topics below and use all five sentence patterns in a composition of at least 100 words. return to the lessons "patterns: inverted, compound parts, s/v/do" and "patterns: s/lv/pn, s/lv/pa, s/v/io/do" if you need to review the sentence patterns. you will be graded based on whether all five sentence patterns are present in your work. suggestions for topics: a. what if the sun exploded? b. what if every family owned a helicopter? c. what if each year were six months long instead of twelve? d. what if you were the president of the united states?