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 does poe use to create the effect of time passing quickly in this passage?
a. short sentences
b. sensory imagery
c. parallel structure
d. figurative language

a. short sentences  

Explanation:

Poe makes the impact of time passing rapidly by utilizing short sentences that accelerate the pace of the story.

Many things occur in this passage, however a lot of what happens is canvassed in single brief sentences.   For example:

I walked the cellar from end to end.

These eight words propose that the storyteller strolled forward and backward a few times. He would not have been remaining toward one side of the basement, in any case however would have strolled to one end, at that point turned and strolled to the opposite end, and, since there was nothing to keep him at that finish of the basement, he would have needed to turn and walk back at least as far as where he had originally been standing.

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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