Read the following excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart".

The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.

Why does Poe repeat words and phrases in this excerpt?
A. To emphasize the character's lack of emotion
B. To create a sense of doom
C. To focus on the sensory imagery of the actions
D. To establish conclusively that the old man is dad