Select the correct inference of the given passage from "the cask of amontillado." indeed, it is very damp. once more let me implore you to return. no? then i must positively leave you. but i must first render you all the little attentions in my power." "the amontillado! " ejaculated my friend, not yet recovered from his astonishment. a. the narrator knows he will abandon fortunato in the vaults. b. the narrator is concerned about the dampness of the vaults. c. the narrator wants to convince fortunato to leave the vaults. d. the narrator will make sure fortunato is comfortable in the vaults.

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Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft. a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring. what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman. a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes. a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit. a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.

What’s “scuttled off sideways” an example of