16. The main character says, “I made no doubt that I could readily displace the bricks at this point, insert the corpse, and wall the whole thing up as before, so that no eye contact detect anything suspicious.” The significance of this is he hides his wife in between the walls in order to hide of the evidence regarding the murder of his victim. By the narrator doing this, it shows his intelligent, sly, and bright character. However, it also proves to the audience the main character is once again deranged and mental. Because he did not want anyone to know about his malicious murder, he takes any actions to hide the corpse, even if this means hiding his wife in between the walls.
17. The narrator is able to sleep well after he conceals the body because he knows that everything is safe. He knows that he will not get caught for the …show more content…
There is syntax and punctuation in the following: “No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! – by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman—a howl—a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the damned in their agony and of the demons the exult in the damnation!” Edgar Allen Poe allows this sentence to make sense through the dashes. Because there are appositives, or a noun that renames another noun right beside it, this makes this sentence a syntax. As shown, the author uses the dash to describe the voice, which is a cry and a muffled sound. Then, he uses another dash to explain how the howl sounds inhuman. As a result, through the dashes and the punctuation, author was trying to increase the sound of the cries and increases the mood of the terror. Edgar A. Poe is able to make a completely long sentence creates a well-formed sentence that makes
17. The narrator is able to sleep well after he conceals the body because he knows that everything is safe. He knows that he will not get caught for the …show more content…
There is syntax and punctuation in the following: “No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! – by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman—a howl—a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the damned in their agony and of the demons the exult in the damnation!” Edgar Allen Poe allows this sentence to make sense through the dashes. Because there are appositives, or a noun that renames another noun right beside it, this makes this sentence a syntax. As shown, the author uses the dash to describe the voice, which is a cry and a muffled sound. Then, he uses another dash to explain how the howl sounds inhuman. As a result, through the dashes and the punctuation, author was trying to increase the sound of the cries and increases the mood of the terror. Edgar A. Poe is able to make a completely long sentence creates a well-formed sentence that makes