Read the excerpt from “the tell-tale heart,” by edgar allan poe.

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.

what is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt?

a. it emphasizes the narrator’s strengths.
b. it emphasizes the narrator’s spirituality.
c. it emphasizes the narrator’s anger.
d. it emphasizes the narrator’s madness.

D. It emphasizes the narrator’s madness.

The effect of parallelism in this excerpt is to replicate a "circular" thinking. The repetition gives the reader the feeling of witnessing a mind that does not operate in a normal way. With this device, the author emphasizes the narrator's madness, which is only made more poignant by the fact that the passage is a defence of his sanity.

an argumentative essay presents objectively a topic and its main characteristics. besides, it states all this information and facts by giving authentic and substantiated proof to the audience. by contrast, a persuasive text purpose is to convince the audience about some facts by presenting them according to his/her emotions and feelings. the main purpose of a persuasive text is to convince the audience to agree with the author´s opinion. on the other hand, in the argumentative essay, the author leads the writer to recognize his/her point of view as the correct one.

the answer to "what does the narrator realize by the end of the story" is b.