Question

Which of the following from "The Tell-Tale Heart" is an effective use of juxtaposition?

A) The old man's eye
B) Keeping still in his room
C) The details of the crime and the claims of sanity
D) The ray of the lantern

Answer 1

B) Keeping still in his room

Step-by-step explanation:

In grammar, juxtaposition is, together with coordination and subordination, one of the ways of gathering two simple sentences to form a compound sentence.

Unlike the other procedures, the juxtaposition does not use nexuses, but pauses or graphical signs of punctuation in the written language to relate two propositions. This makes it often ambiguous and gives rise to different syntactic interpretations between one speaker or another if the context is not clear enough or the presuppositions are not very explicit.