Read this excerpt from “the black cat” by edgar allan poe. one night, returning home, much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, i fancied that the cat avoided my presence. i seized him; when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth. how does the first-person point of view affect the meaning of the text? readers learn about the narrator's excuse for his behavior. readers learn the narrator's own analysis and explanation for his treatment of his wife. readers gain insight into why the cat avoids the narrator. readers get an inside perspective on how the narrator feels when the cat ignores him.

I just took the test the answer is Readers get an inside perspective on how the narrator feels when the cat ignores him.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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