Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this story. which statement best summarizes the effect of the first-person point of view on poe’s story "the pit and the pendulum"?
the first-person point of view lets poe give the reader an insider’s view into the terror and agony of the imprisonment.
because poe uses a first-person narrator, the reader understands that the prisoner knows that he will be saved in the end.
the first-person pint of view allows poe to tell what the judges were thinking when they condemned the prisoner.
by using the first-person point of view, poe gives the reader insight into the french soldier who rescues the prisoner.

The first-person point of view lets Poe give the reader an insider's view into the terror and agony of the imprisonment.

Explanation:

The answer is that the first-person point of view in The Pit and the Pendulum gives the reader an insider's view  into the terror and agony of the imprisonment because throughout the entire story it is like the reader is on the character's mind and the use of the pronoun "I" makes it more personal eventually making the reader feel what the main character is experiencing.  The entire story is a vivid and detailed description of set imprisonment, the character's conclusions and thoughts of what he sees almost without a filter,  other characters or dialogues are not taken into consideration but only the first-person point of view making the character's thoughts become or merge with our own.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)