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What is the falling action in the story The Pit and the Pendulum?
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∙ 12y ago
The falling action is the narrators attempt to dispose the old mans body and the conversation he had with the four police before the narrator admitted or confessed to his crime or the killing of the old man (landlord)
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∙ 13y ago
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoThe falling action of the story is when the walls started to refract when he was about to fall in the pit
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∙ 8y agoThe falling action is the narrator's attempts to dispose of the landlord's body and the conversatin he has with the policemen before he confesses to the crime.
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∙ 13y agoAll of the action leading up to where the main character smothers the old man with his mattress, which is the climax.
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What was scaring the narrator in the pit and the pendulum?
a horde of ratsa sharpened pendulum getting ever nearera bottomless pit with wall closing in.
How do you spell pit in french?
Le feu fosse
How do you say pit in spanish?
hueco
What rhymes with children swim in it?
end the sentence with 'pit'?
What has four legs and one arm?
A happy pit bull.
What is the falling action in the story pit and the pendulum?
The falling action of the story is when the walls started to refract when he was about to fall in the pit
What is the falling action for the pit and the pendulum?
The falling action of "The Pit and the Pendulum" involves the narrator falling unconscious and waking up to find himself strapped to a table as a pendulum swings above him, getting closer to cutting him. He then narrowly escapes death when the French army arrives to save him from the Inquisition's torture chambers.
In The Pit and the Pendulum when was he in the courtroom?
At the beginning of the story.
What is the rising action in the pit and the pendulum?
Read the book.
What swings back and forth measures time and is prominently featured in a grisly short story by Edgar Allan Poe?
A pendulum, which swings back and forth, measures time. It is prominently featured in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Pit and the Pendulum," where it is used as a torture device in a dungeon.
When the narrator sees the pendulum descending he thinks of it as a milder way to die than?
Being burnt alive. The narrator reflects on how death by fire is a more painful and agonizing way to die compared to being sliced by the pendulum.
Falling action of the most dangueros games?
When the dog falls into the pit trap. That's action and it involves falling.
Who saves Edgar Allan Poe in the pit and the pendulum?
In Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum," the narrator is saved from the descending razor-sharp pendulum at the last moment by French soldiers who liberate him from the Spanish Inquisition dungeon.
What story title is it with the axe swinging from the ceiling by Edgar Allan Poe?
The story you are referring to is "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe. In this short story, the protagonist finds himself trapped in a dark dungeon with a swinging pendulum blade descending towards him, creating a sense of suspense and impending doom.
Who was the author of the pit and the pendulum?
Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Pit and the Pendulum.
Was a pendulum one of the torture tools during the middle ages?
No, it was just from a story by Edgar Allan Poe called The Pit and the Pendulum written in 1842
In the pit and the pendulum What was in the pit?
a horde of ratsa sharpened pendulum getting ever nearera bottomless pit with wall closing in.
