Read the selection below from the short story “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe and complete the statement that follows. I saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which I had escaped. Another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which I had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the Inquisition. To the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. I had been reserved for the latter. By long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until I trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. All of the following stylistic devices appear in the passage above except __________.
The passage uses sensory imagery in phrases such as “trembled at the sound of my own voice,” and it repeats words such as “death.” Its sentences are also long and structurally complex, as in the sentence describing the choice facing the victims. There is no simile comparing one thing to another using “like” or “as,” so the exception is simile.
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