Idared not -- oh, pity me, miserable wretch that i am! -- i dared not -- i dared not speak! we have put her living in the tomb! said i not that my senses were acute? i now tell you that i heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin. i heard them -- many, many days ago -- yet i dare not -- i dared not speak! what is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt? it emphasizes usher’s physical illness. it emphasizes usher’s sense of terror. it emphasizes usher’s uncooperative attitude. it emphasizes usher’s melancholy nature.

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia