In "the black cat," the narrator begins the story by speaking directly to the reader. the narrator continues this practice periodically throughout the story. how does the author's use of this structure create mystery in the story? be sure to use specific details from the story to support your response.

The author creates mystery in the story with the help of a narrator that describes everything that he experienced with "Pluto" the black cat.

Explanation:

One of the strategies of the author to catch the reader attention is the name of the story "The Black Cat" when people starts reading it they imagine that the black cat, is an important character in the story. However, the narrator begins the story by giving many details and he says "he has many pets" and he also says "he never mistreat any of his pets" so people can take a picture of what's going to happen then. So the reader keeps reading in order to know the mystery about "Pluto". After knowing that the narrator has "alcohol problems" we come to the conclusion that something bad is going to happen to the cat.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

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explanation:

it depends on what grade.

kindergarten to senior year in high school will go for about 7 hours. pre-k will go for bout 4-5 hours. college, it depends on your classes.