What is the importance of approciate clothes and shoes to a ballerina

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Which best explains this excerpt’s purpose in the novel’s plot structure? the excerpt creates conflict between characters as part of the rising action. the excerpt provides background information on a character as part of the exposition. the excerpt returns a character to equilibrium as part of the falling action. the excerpt is the point of greatest tension and acts as the climax.

Which passage is an example of rising action in edgar allan poe`s "the black cat