Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Read this excarpt from The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Then fill in the blanks in the paragraph that follows.
TRUE! nervous very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am: but why willyou say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my
sensesnot destroyednot 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.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain: but once conceived. it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion
there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his
eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me. my blood ran cold: and so
by degrees - very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.
In these opening lines, the reader is presented with a narrator who wants to kill "the old man" because of his eye. The author uses the
lines to present a
vconflict. Based on this excerpt. this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in