Read this passage from "The Black Cat"

The officers bade me accompany them in their search.
They left no nook or corner unexplored. At length, for the
third or fourth time, they descended into the cellar. I
quivered not in a muscle. My heart beat calmly as that of
one who slumbers in innocence. I walked the cellar from
end to end. I folded my arms upon my bosom, and roamed
easily to and fro. The police were thoroughly satisfied and
prepared to depart.

What effect does Poe's use of short sentences have on the pacing of this
passage?

A. It creates the effect of time passing quickly in the story.

B. It allows the reader a chance to review events in the story.

C. It causes the reader to question the accuracy of the narrator's
version of events.

D. It establishes a slow buildup to the climax of the story.

According to myth how does the grandmother spider capture the suns child

Iam for the "immediate, unconditional, and universal" enfranchisement of the black man, in ev [loud applause.] without this, his liberty is a mockery; without this, you might as well almost slavery for his condition; for in fact, if he is not the slave of the individual master, he is the slay liberty as a privilege, not as a right. he is at the mercy of the mob, and has no means of protec how does the repetition of the phrase "without this" support the paragraph's argument? it reinforces the idea that without equality in the us, the idea of a free society is a joke. it suggests that a free society is possible, with or without equal rights for all people. it indicates that douglass would be content without material possessions or status. it proposes that slavery will not be abolished in the us without the support of all citizens.

The development of new inventions in the field of space travel seemed rapid. how does the word rapid function in a sentence?