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Read this excerpt from 'The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Then fill in the blanks in the paragraph that foll
TRUE! — nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
senses - not destroyed – not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in t
heard many things in hell. How, then, ami mad? Hearken and observe how healthily — how calmly I can te
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but once conceived, it haunted me day and night
there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold
eyel yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture – a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon
by degrees - very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye fever.
In these opening lines, the reader is presented with a narrator who wants to kill the old man because of his eye
lines to present a ______
conflict. Based on this excerpt, this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in ________.