What is the prisoner's fate? A
Because he discovered the pit, the Inquisitors decide to make him want to be thrown in through threat of torture,

B
Since he didn't fall into the pit, the Inquisitors decide to kill him with a blade that he can see approaching.

C
The Inquisitors are worried the narrator will jump in the pit and spoil their fun, so they're killing him by guillotine.

D
The Inquisitors are letting the narrator choose between death by pit, pendulum, or hungry rats.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase "dying fall" most likely mean in both excerpts