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Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart".

TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

The narrator says that other people characterize him as

a. calm
b. healthy
c. insane
d. scared

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holesstanham

Answer: c. insane

The narrator of this excerpt complains that other people characterize him as insane ("why will you say that I am mad?") and he wants to deny the credibility of this claim. He says that he might be nervous, but he is not mad. In fact, his senses are sharper than ever, as he can hear everything, including what goes on in Heaven and Hell. This fact, intended to convince us of his sanity, proves that he is indeed insane.

lhmarianateixeira

In this exercise we want to identify which characteristic the narrator says is called and that would be insane.

During the reading of the book there are some passages where other characters characterize him as a madman, for example: "why will you say that I am mad?"

This kind of attitude of characterizing him as a madman is a way of discrediting what he says. However, some attitudes that the character has proves that he is indeed insane.

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