Question 6 of 10
Read this passage from "The Black Cat":
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its
neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; hung it with the
tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest
remorse at my heart; hung it because I knew that it had
loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of
offence; hung it because I knew that in so doing I was
committing a sin a deadly sin that would so jeopardize
my immortal soul as to place it if such a thing were
possible even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of
the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.
What effect does the narrator create by repeating the phrase "hung it"?
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A. It encourages the reader to sympathize with the narrator and his