Read the following passage:
Hey! You! Yes, you - the one reading this book! Come
here! A little closer ... closer... that's better. Let me
whisper in your ear. For I, dear reader, have a secret to tell,
and you are its lucky recipient.
Which sentence best describes the impact of beginning a story this way?

A. The author disorients the reader by promising interesting
information to come.

B. The author creates irony by assuming the reader knows what is
going on

C. The author makes the reader a character by using the first-person
point of view.

D. The author uses short sentences and exclamation marks to set a
comic tone.

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret