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which sentence in this excerpt from edgar allan poe's "the tale-tell heart" uses personification?
presently i heard a slight groan, and i knew it was the groan of mortal terror. it was not a groan of pain or of grief-oh, nol-it was the low
stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. i knew the sound well. many a night, just at midnight,
when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. i say
knew it well. i knew what the old man felt, and pitled him, although i chuckled at heart. i knew that he had been lying awake ever since the
first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. his fears had been ever since growing upon him. he had been trying to fancy them
causeless, but could not. he had been saying to himself-"it is nothing but the wind in the chimney-it is only a mouse crossing the floor,"
or" it is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp." yes, he had been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions: but he had
found all in vain. all in vain; because death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim
and it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel-although he neither saw nor heard-to feel the
presence of my head within the room.