Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this story. which statement best summarizes the effect of the first-person point of view on poe’s story "the pit and the pendulum"?
the first-person point of view lets poe give the reader an insider’s view into the terror and agony of the imprisonment.
because poe uses a first-person narrator, the reader understands that the prisoner knows that he will be saved in the end.
the first-person pint of view allows poe to tell what the judges were thinking when they condemned the prisoner.
by using the first-person point of view, poe gives the reader insight into the french soldier who rescues the prisoner.

Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.