"She loved, was loved, and died."


I now saw:


"Having gone out in the rain one day, in order to deceive her lover, she caught cold and died."

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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? (5 points)




To suggest the extent of the narrator's shock


To make the reader wonder what else happened in the graveyard


To emphasize the unlikely nature of the story's events


To establish that the narrator had not merely dreamed the story