There is a secret about one of my rooms on which I feel disposed to try an experiment. "What technique does Irving use to build suspense in the excerpt?

The setting details are omitted from the plot of the story.

Explanation:

sonnet 130 follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter,a type of a poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.the first line exemplifies iambic pentameter.

the answer is:

b) to show the progression of inventions that took place in the bicycling industry.

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