Read this passage from "The Black Cat": "By the bye, gentlemen, this this is a very well constructed house." [In the rabid desire to say something easily, I scarcely knew what I uttered at all.] "I ma

Read this passage from "The Black Cat": "By the bye, gentlemen, this this is a very well constructed house." [In the rabid desire to say something easily, I scarcely knew what I uttered at all.] "I may say an excellently well constructed house. These walls — are you going, gentlemen?" What technique is Poe using in this passage to help develop the narrator's character?