The two sentences that best explain how Poe creates irony in "The Tell-Tale Heart" are:
A. The narrator's attempts to hide the murder actually result in him giving himself up to the police.
C. The more the narrator insists that he is not mad, the more readers can detect evidence of his madness.
These sentences highlight the contradictions between the narrator's intentions and the outcomes of his actions, which are key elements of irony in the story.