Which passage is part of the climax of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat"?
A. Upon its head...sat the hideous beast...I had walled the monster up with the tomb!
B. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.
C. I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat and deliberately cut one of his Eyes from the socket!
D. I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feeling of others.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. isn’t this like condemning socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? isn’t this like condemning jesus because his unique god consciousness and never ceasing devotion to god’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? what rhetorical technique does martin luther king employ in this excerpt from “letter from birmingham jail”? select all that apply. allusion extended metaphor figurative language simile