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4. Poe repeats the word FREE four times. What does he highlight with this repetition?

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4. Poe repeats the word FREE four times. What does he highlight with this repetition?

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because he could no longer bear the suffering.

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5. What does the narrator fear now that he has escaped the pendulum?

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5. What does the narrator fear now that he has escaped the pendulum?

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Drawn by the food, the rats climb on top of the narrator and chew through the strap. As the pendulum nears his heart, the narrator breaks through the strap and escapes from the pendulum's swing. The narrator realizes that the enclosing walls will force him into the pit, an escape that will also mean his death.

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The pit is a symbol of suffering and, even more clearly, of death. Before he entered this cell, the narrator had heard rumors of the pit as the ultimate, most horrifying torture inflicted on victims of the Inquisition. At one point he actually calls it a symbol of hell.

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3. What sounds are usually associated with Judgement Day, as the world ends?  

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3. What sounds are usually associated with Judgement Day, as the world ends?  

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Trumpets, angles are playing the trumpets.

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2. What do the pendulum and the painted figure holding a scythe represent?

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2. What do the pendulum and the painted figure holding a scythe represent?

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It descends from an image of Father Time, himself an age old symbol of the passage of time.

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The pit is a symbol of suffering and death.

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9. What sounds are usually associated with Judgement Day, as the world ends? Do you hear these sounds at the end of the story? Use details from the text, explain whether this interpretation of the story´s symbolism makes sense.

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9. What sounds are usually associated with Judgement Day, as the world ends? Do you hear these sounds at the end of the story? Use details from the text, explain whether this interpretation of the story´s symbolism makes sense.

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Your “Words in Context” subscore measures your understanding of the meaning and use of words and phrases in the context of passages on the SAT Reading Test and the Writing and Language Test.

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8. What do the pendulum and the painted figure holding a scythe represent? 

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8. What do the pendulum and the painted figure holding a scythe represent? 

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The most obvious symbol is that of the pendulum. It descends from an image of Father Time—himself an age-old symbol of the passage of time—who usually carries a scythe, a symbol of harvest and therefore of the end of the cycle of growth in the life of a plant.