In “the tell-tale heart” by edgar allan poe, what does the beating heart that the narrator hears symbolize?
power
guilt
survival
deception

B. Guilt

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the beating of the heart that narrator hears is symbolic for the guilt the narrator feels for having murdered the old man.  Evidence of his guilt is presented early in the short story by how the narrator tells us that he “had to do it” as if he had no other choice, which seems to be a sort of defense mechanism to make himself feel better about killing the old man.  Finally, it is within the presence of the police that the beating heart only he hears is what makes him confess to the crime because it was getting too great for him to bear any longer.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

alright no problem, cool