Read this excerpt from paragraph 9 of "The Black Cat" and answer the question. On the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done, I was aroused from sleep by the cry of fire. The curtains of my bed were in flames. The whole house was blazing. ...I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Why did the author most likely include the underlined sentence?

to explore the possibility of the fire smoldering long before the cat was dead
to negate any idea that there is a supernatural link between the cat and the fire
to explain how the cat's death may be a remote factor in the fire
to disprove the connection between the fire, the cat, and the narrator

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet

Haow does shakespeare use of supernatural to create suspence in macbeth

What can be inferred about the cyclops in this excerpt from homer’s odyssey?