Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher." I dared not -- oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! -- I dared
not -- I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb! Said I not that my senses were acute? I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin. I heard them -- many, many days ago -- yet I dare not -- I dared not speak! What is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt? It emphasizes Usher’s physical illness.It emphasizes Usher’s sense of terror.It emphasizes Usher’s uncooperative attitude.It emphasizes Usher’s melancholy nature.
It emphasizes Usher's sense of terror.Repetitively saying "I dared not" shows his deep discomfort state of mind, whereas the parallel use of simple perfect tense in an interrogative sentence ("said I not") adds to the completely disoriented senses, as Usher can't tell the truth from the troublesome fiction of his own mind.
A. He juxtaposes Creon, who is figuratively blind to the gods’ laws, with Teiresias, who is literally blind but can see and communicate the will of the gods.
