Read the following lines from "The Tell-Tale Heart." "True!

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Read the following lines from "The Tell-Tale Heart." "True! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily how calmly I can tell you the whole story." What is the irony in the above excerpt? The narrator, though Is Insane, says he has acute sense of hearing. The narrator says he can hear everything, but he has problems hearing. The narrator is very nervous, and he can hear things all around him. --