"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?

a. To suggest the extent of the narrator's shock
b. To make the reader wonder what else happened in the graveyard
c. To emphasize the unlikely nature of the story's events
d. To establish that the narrator had not merely dreamed the story