"Was it a Dream?"

by Guy de Maupassant

Read the poem above and answer the following questions.


It appears that they found me at daybreak, lying on the grave unconscious.


Why did the author choose to put a break between the narrator's discovery and his recovery by others?

ATo suggest the extent of the narrator's shock

BTo make the reader wonder what else happened in the graveyard

CTo emphasize the unlikely nature of the story's events

DTo establish that the narrator had not merely dreamed the story