Identification
The story unfolds as a first-person confession in which the narrator attempts to explain a series of violent acts. Starting with cruelty toward his pet and ending in the murder of his wife.
Fragment
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The shock lies not only in the graphic imagery but in the calm devotion with which he describes it. As though decomposition were another form of art.
The shock lies not only in the graphic imagery but in the calm devotion with which he describes it, as though decomposition were another form of art.
He blames alcohol, fate, and even the cat itself, he is avoiding direct responsibility for his choices.
Comma-Splice
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The true terror of the story are not the cat’s reappearance, but the mind that believes it has outsmarted guilt.
The true terror of the story is not the cat’s reappearance, but the mind that believes it has outsmarted guilt.
The black cat becomes more than an animal it represents the narrator’s growing guilt and the consequences he tries to suppress.
Run-On
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Baudelaire transforms the carcass into proof that death feeds creation that even rot can bloom under the gaze of an imaginative poet.
Baudelaire transforms the carcass into proof that death feeds creation; that even rot can bloom under the gaze of an imaginative poet.
The true terror of the story are not the cat’s reappearance, but the mind that believes it has outsmarted guilt.
Subject-Verb agreement
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In this poem Charles Baudelaire forces the reader to stare at decaying matter maggots pulsing flesh dissolving until the revulsion shifts to admiration.
In this poem Charles Baudelaire forces the reader to stare at decaying matter, maggots pulsing, flesh dissolving, until the revulsion shifts to admiration.
What are these words called?
However
Therefore
Meanwhile
Conjunctive adverbs