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Read the excerpt from “Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe.

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door-
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;-
This it is, and nothing more."

What is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt?
It emphasizes the portrait’s artistry.
It emphasizes the narrator’s mistakes.
It emphasizes the excitement the narrator feels.
It emphasizes the frightening nature of the narrator’s experience.

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It emphasizes the frightening nature of the narrator’s experience.

The repeated phrases and mirrored sentence structure heighten the suspense and mirror his racing heart, reinforcing his fear and anxiety rather than excitement or a portrait’s artistry.