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APEX LEARNING QUESTION

Click to read the passage from "The Black Cat," by Edgar Allan Poe. Then answer the question.

In the passage, what about the author's word choices suggests the man is evil?

A.The first person point of view
B.The imagery of animals
C.The words with dark spiritual associations
D.The words that suggest violence

Passage...

One night, returning home . . . from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that
the cat avoided my presence. I seized him; when, in his fright at my violence, he
inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth. The fury of a demon instantly
possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take
its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence . . . thrilled every
fibre of my frame.

Answer 1

In the passage, the author's word choices that suggest the man is evil are the following ones:

C.The words with dark spiritual associations.

The narrator says he was possessed by "the fury of a demon", and also that his soul was assaulted by a "fiendish malevolence" that "thrilled every fibre of his frame". We can say the man is evil for allowing such anger to take control of his body and impair his judgement. Plus, all of it happened just because of a cat. Therefore, the man is evil for letting himself get carried away like that by being receptive to evil forces.

Answer 2

The author's word choices tells that the man is evil because the words with dark spiritual associations.

What is  spiritual associations?

A   spiritual associations is known to be a group of people tht re united by religion.

Note that in the passage the narrator says he was possessed by "the fury of a demon". Therefore, The author's word choices tells that the man is evil because the words with dark spiritual associations.

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