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Darkened Emotions Known for its mystical atmosphere and darkened rhythmic tone, “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe was first published in the year 1845. Once the poem ended up getting published it rocketed Poe’s popularity. Critics were all over him. The critics were not just interpreting Poe’s work, but as well as critiquing it. They wanted to know everything about it.

Poe is often known for his dark, sometimes twisted short stories and poems. “The Masque of the Red Death” is no exception. In this short story, Poe creates and eerie and ominous mood by using a wide variety of literary techniques including imagery, diction, and syntax. Poe’s use of imagery contributes to the dark and mysterious mood of the short story, “The Masque of the Red Death.” In the first paragraph, a sense of darkness is conveyed in the sentence, “There was no light of any kind emanating from lamp or candle within the suite of chambers.”

Major Works Data Sheet In this column, choose five quotations from the text, one focusing on each of the following literary elements: In this column, analyze the significance of your quotations. Allow the following questions to guide your responses: Why is this important? What does this reveal? Why does the author say it this way?

It is natural to want the best in life, to live in bliss and to never experience pain or suffering. Still, no matter how tempting that life would be, can one really call it living never to experience pain or sorrow along with joy and bliss? When the time of the ending of our life’s story comes, it is common to reflect on our past and to take in all of the good and bad that we have encountered. Gwendolyn Brooks’ calm poem, “The Bean Eaters,” displays the life of an elderly couple reflecting on the bittersweetness of their lives. While their pasts were not perfect, the poem captures the harmony of the events that took place throughout their lives and the peace they are left with as a result.

Prominent English naturalist Charles Darwin once said, “A man who dares to waste one hour of his time has not discovered the value of life.” Darwin’s meaningful words emphasize the importance of time in one’s life. In this day and age, society does not understand that life is valuable, every minute, second, microsecond, and nanosecond. Life is something meant to be lived in contentment, something to be lived to the fullest. Life is replete with opportunities, as well as valuable lessons that help build a person’s character.

Luminescence of the Incident Imagine people standing right by your house and committing horrendous acts; people whom, if given the chance, would not hesitate for a second before taking your life away. Imagine the fear and terror you would feel, and try to put yourself into the position of such a helpless somebody. The poem “Incident”, written by Natasha Trethewey, deals with a person in such a situation.

"Popular Mechanics- Written so that you can understand it," was first published by Henry Haven Windsor in 1902. The magazine title synopsized the intent of the publication. The magazine 's founders intention was to establish a reliable resource for technology and science written in a way that was easily understood by the readers. Chronicling the advent of flying machines, radio, X-Rays, automobiles and a plethora of ingenious inventions, Popular Mechanics helped draw technology and the marvels of the 20th century ever closer to the reader 's own world. The dirigible, the wireless, the television and more leaped out to the voracious hearts and minds of the American public.

There is a saying in Chinese, 每个人都会经过生老病死, that in life, everyone will go through birth, aging, sickness and then finally, death. Death is unavoidable for everyone and every living creature. Even the non-living would have to “face death” and cease to exist one day. Just like what Steve Jobs had once said, “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.

The Aesthete’s Date and Doom -a modified narrative of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice Aschenbach set out to follow Tadzio. The busy achier busily tries his sharp arrows, and seducing Aschenbach’s Muses to impose the will of art on him. And thus, through every sordid channel and sultry street, Aschenbach’s eyes and mind were pursuing the boy’s god-like beauty that manifested the highest form of intellectual and aesthetic presentation. He was, Aschenbach thought, a rare sculpture of Greek’s noblest time.

Love, for many, is hard to describe, even for the most experienced writers. Cleary’s TEDx video proposes a few theories about love, one of which, she says, “We love in order to quench our physical and psychological desires.” One’s desires are based on their past experiences; causing their actions to be, as well. Hence, love in the past can impact present romantic relationships in unpredictable ways. Falling in love may lead people to cheat on their already established relationships.

Have you ever stood in place imagining your whole life happen in front of you? Douglas Spaulding, a magician, “conducts” what happens in summer. In the novel Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury, a wide array of rhetorical devices, including various forms of imagery, to contribute to the imaginary atmosphere portrayed in the excerpt. Bradbury starts the excerpt using a series of rhetorical devices to portray Douglas’s vision of summer. He describes the main characters hometown as a “swarming sea of elm and oak and maple” With the combination of a metaphor and polysyndeton, readers can visualize the setting of what surrounds the main characters home.