Read the following excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart and answer the question. TRUE! - nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The
disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed – not 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.
Which of the following figures of speech is used in this line?
o hyperbole
O paradox
O pun
o understatement