Read the selection below from the short story “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe and complete the statement that follows. I saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which I had escaped. Another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which I had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the Inquisition. To the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. I had been reserved for the latter. By long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until I trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me.

All of the following stylistic devices appear in the passage above except .

repetition of words
sensory imagery
complicated sentences
simile

All of the following stylistic devices appear in the passage above except simile.

Explanation:

Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Pit and the Pendulum" is about an unnamed narrator left in a pit to die. The 'experience' inside the pit leads the narrator to accept sudden and quick death as compared to that of the fear of being 'pushed' into the pit by the pendulum.

In the given passage, the author uses all of the given stylistic devices of repetitive words, sensory imagery, and complicated sentences. But he did not use simile in the passage.

Similes are comparison words using "like" and "as". And we do not find any of the two within the given excerpt.

Thus, the correct answer is a simile.

arah orne jewett first published "a white heron" in her 1886 collection, "a white heron and other stories." this short story tells the tale of what happens when sylvia, a 9-year-old girl living deep in the forest with her grandmother, meets a young hunter looking to capture, and kill, the white heron living in sylvia's woods. the climax occurs when sylvia must decide whether to him or protect the bird.

rising action

leading up to the climax of the story, the nameless young hunter befriends sylvia and her grandmother, mrs. tilly. he explains to mrs. tilly that he is bent on "stuffing and preserving" a little white heron that he believes lives near their cottage. mrs. tilly offers up that "[t]here ain't a foot o' ground" that sylvia doesn't know and suggests that she may be able to him find the bird.

climax

after following, but not really , the young hunter on his search for the heron, sylvia slips out of bed alone in the middle of the night to find the heron for herself. perched at the top of a gigantic pine tree, sylvia spots the heron, and its nest, in a dead hemlock tree across the way. the following morning she returns home to find her grandmother and the hunter waiting for her at the door. in the moment when she plans to tell the hunter where to find the heron, she suddenly decides to protect the heron and remain silent; even the promise of much needed money does not sway her.

explanation:

the answer is:

apprehensive.