Question

"Long – long – long – many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it – yet I dared not – oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! – I dared not – I dared not speak!" —“The Fall of the House of Usher,” Edgar Allan Poe

How is this passage effective at conveying Roderick’s madness?

Answer 1

Parallelism calls attention to Roderick’s fear.

Repeated phrases make Roderick seem anxious and terrified.

Parallelism helps show that Roderick has felt haunted for a long time.

Parallelism creates a dark mood from something that never ends.

Answer 2

This passage is effective at conveying Roderick's madness by using repetition.

Step-by-step explanation:

The use of a repetition is a very effective tool in a story to demonstrate the madness of a character.

In this case, after the death of his twin sister, Usher's attitude became totally strange and began to show signs of mental disorder.

In this excerpt, what is done is to emphasize that madness through the continuous repetition of words. Acting like a madman, Usher begins to say that he listened to something all for a long time, every hour and every minute.

What she heard was her sister's voice and assured that she had been buried alive.