Fall of the House of Usher, excerpt
By Edgar Allan Poe
The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty. The windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor as to be altogether inaccessible from within. Feeble gleams of encrimsoned light made their way through the trellised panes, and served to render sufficiently distinct the more prominent objects around; the eye, however, struggled in vain to reach the remoter angles of the chamber, or the recesses of the vaulted and fretted ceiling. Dark draperies hung upon the walls. The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality to the scene. I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all.
Which of the following statements is most likely true about the narrator? (5 points)
He feels glad to be where he is.
He wants to move into this house.
He feels sad looking at this room.
He is angry with someone who lives here.
Answer:
He feels sad looking at this room
Answer:
He feels sad looking at this room
Explanation:
What this is, is melancholy which is a form of sadness for no apparent reason. In the text it doesn't say it was his old room, so then as we can see he has no reason.
7.
The bolded words are "dreary", and "weary".
Read the following passage from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Which sound device is expressed by the bolded words?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
weak and weary …
A. alliteration
B. rhythm
C. refrain
D. rhyme
Answer:
D. Rhyme
Explanation:
Since the bolded words are dreary and weary it seems like the best fit.
Answer:
D. rhyme
Explanation:
Rhyme
As you know, words that rhyme end with a similar sound. Rhyme and time, beat and heat, and friends and trends are all examples of rhyming words.
“Mary Had a Little Lamb” has only two rhyming words. Both come at the end of a line of verse.
As in rap lyrics, the use of rhyming in lyric poetry can be very elaborate. As you will see in “The Raven,” rhyming words can come at the end of lines of verse (end rhyme), or they can be located within one or more lines of verse (internal rhyme).
This time as you read “The Raven,” pay particular attention to the rhyming words. How many sets of rhymes does Poe use? Where are the rhymes within the poem?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping—rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more."
Look at the words in bold. Did you find all three rhyming sets?
“dreary” and “weary”
“lore,” “door,” and “more”
“napping,” “tapping,” and “rapping”
Remember: rhyming can occur at the end of lines, such as with the rhyming set “lore, door, more.” They can also be internal rhymes that occur within the sentence structure, such as “dreary” and “weary,” and “napping,” “tapping,” and “rapping.”
Rhyming is another sound device that gives lyric poetry its musical quality.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping—rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more."
What two central ideas are evident within this passage ?
Which of Heather's actions in "Puzzle Solved" is the BEST
evidence of her weariness with the cryptogram?
O A She chuckles at Anya's choice of words
o B. She lamely notes that they are supposed to be having
fun
OC. She giggles nervously after her mother says
something
o D. She rolls her eyes at Anya's remark.
The phrase "terribly pleased" is an example of a(n)
idiom
homograph
oxymoron
homophone
Answer:
Answer is oxymoron
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What is one way that Harder gives his article credibility?
Presenting lots of examples.
Hooking us at the beginning.
Citing other experts.
Using complicated vocabulary.
Answer:
presenting lots of examples/ citing other experts
Explanation:
because if the author is talking about something that happened years ago ....in order for is article to be credible ...giving examples will make the readers believe in it ./ by citing other experts...his article will be more credible.
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Answer:
hooking us at the begining
Explanation:
what does a chosen family mean to you?
Answer:
a family picked by a higher power
Based on the point and evidence, which is the best explanation, or analysis, of the evidence?
The Maori myth shows people working together to achieve a goal.
The Maori myth suggests that some families feel like they are stuck where they are.
This shows the Maori's belief that sometimes making sacrifices is the only way to achieve a goal.
This suggests that the Mäori believe that teamwork helps family members achieve their goals.
Answer: This suggests that the Mäori believe that teamwork helps family members achieve their goals.
Explanation:
In the Maori creation story, Ranginui (Rangi) who is the skymother and Papatuanuku (Papa) the skyfather, block the sun from their children as they are locked in procreative embrace.
Their children decide to separate them so that they may have light. Working together, they are able to accomplish the task thereby showing that with teamwork, family members can achieve their goals.
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Answer:
the third option
Explanation:
Because it uses the word I
Answer:
I ran into the house..........
Explanation:
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“It’s beautiful. May I touch it?” His hand hovering over the outstretched wing, one eyebrow raised questioningly.
The light in Gregory’s eyes dimmed slightly. He wasn’t going to buy. People never asked to touch if they were going to buy, they waited till they got it home and then they stroked and caressed in privacy. They only asked to touch an object if they knew they’d never see it again, and wanted to fix the experience in their minds.
“Sure,” he said, “go ahead.”
The man’s fingers swept lightly over the bird’s wing, tracing the lines of the inner vane, the outer vane, the primary and secondary remiges. He stroked down the thorax, right down to the spindly, gnarled legs on which it perched.
“It’s extraordinary,” he said, “it’s just so…”
“Lifelike?” offered Gregory.
“Lifelike. The lightness of the feathers. The tension in the legs. Even the shine in the eye. It’s a stunning piece of work. You should be very proud.”
Gregory smiled, but said nothing. He turned his attention back to the piece he was working on: a sparrowhawk, its outstretched form just beginning to emerge from the block of lime clamped to his workbench. He laid down the adze he’d been using to shape the upper curve of the beak, and switched to a riffler to begin on the fine detail.
“You really seem to have a feel for these birds’ anatomy.”
Gregory nodded. “Yes, I know how they’re put together. The bones, the muscles, the tendons. You can’t carve a bird unless you really understand how they work, how the underlying structure connects everything together.”
“So delicate,” he said, stroking the wing feathers. “But these claws, this sharp beak… birds of prey are vicious too, right?”
Gregory looked up. “Vicious? Only out of necessity. Animals kill only to eat.”
“Really?” The man started to smile. “Have you seen a cat with a mouse? A fox slaughtering chickens? I’d argue that the prime motivation for random acts of evil is not survival, but mischief.”
The man wandered around the crowded workshop, letting his fingers brush lightly over the array of eagles, falcons, kestrels and hawks. “And you only do birds?”
” ‘Only’?” queried Gregory. “That’s like saying to Puccini, ‘You only write operas?’ A bird isn’t just a bird. Every bird is different. I ‘only’ carve birds, yes. Birds are my life. My fingers translate flight into wood.”
“And I bet you’d love to be able to fly, right?”
Gregory laid down his tools and studied the man for the first time. In his early 60s, hair thinning, a slight paunch. Round horn rimmed glasses that made him look like he’d walked out of a wartime movie.
“Seriously? I’d give a year of my life for five minutes’ flight. Like a bird, not in a contraption. I’ve been up in planes, microlights, balloons. I’ve even been strapped to a hangglider and jumped off a cliff. But that’s not real flight. It’s a cheap imitation. I’d give anything to experience what it’s like to fly like an eagle.”
“Anything?” The man leaning closer, dropping his voice to a whisper.
“Anything.”
“In that case, I might just be able to help you.”
The man stepped forward, stretched out his arms, and gently placed his upturned hands beneath Gregory’s elbows. Then, with surprising force, he gave a strong, hard shove upwards. Gregory felt himself being thrust into the air, crashing through the flimsy wooden roof of the workshop. In a couple of seconds he was hundreds of feet up, looking down at his distant workshop and the upturned face of the man gazing up at him, smiling broadly.
As he started to tumble back to earth, Gregory reflexively spread his limbs to slow himself down — and found he had sprouted a vast pair of feathered wings. He glided for a while, caught a thermal, and found himself flying up once more.
Gingerly at first, he tried flapping the wings, and discovered that his powerful new shoulder muscles were able to lift him even higher. He could feel each tendon pulling him aloft, could sense the wind rushing through each feather, could gauge with unnerving precision the air currents that would raise him up or drag him down.
For several minutes Gregory swooped and climbed, flapped and glided, probing each new experience and mentally logging the process. This was how it felt to bank into a breeze; this was what it was like to rise on a current of warm air, effortlessly lifting into the sky as each thermal carried him upwards. This was how it felt to plummet, to check, to rise again. He could feel each muscle, each tendon, pulling and reacting to the infinitely variable densities of the medium of the air. In five minutes he’d gained more insight into the workings of avian anatomy than in twenty years studying textbooks.
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I MET a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert ... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage [face] lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which still survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Select one piece of evidence that supports the situational irony of the poem.
A Nothing beside remains
B I met a traveler
C Its sculptor well those passions read
Answer:
B
Explanation:
B I met a traveler
B I met a traveler
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Max's father said he sent Max gifts and letters while he was in prison, but Grim and Gram never gave them to Max. Do you believe Max's father really sent letters and gifts?
Answer:
Yes, Max's father had wrote letters and sent gifts to Max while he was in prison.
Explanation:
Max's father was in prison for last seven years. He had been serving his punishment due to a crime of murder. Max was really attached to his father and could not live without him so Max's father started to write letters to Max and often sent him gifts but Max did not received any gift because Grim and Gram never gave him the letters and gifts.
The Ballot or the Bullet
What is the Author’s Purpose
Answer:
The authors goal is to convince blacks of America that they needed to start standing up for themselves and fight the American government.
Also, to inform the government that blacks were coming for them.
In "Feathered Friend," why do crew members pass around an oxygen bottle? (sorry for the repetition of questions)
To prevent themselves from falling asleep. Claribel was passing out due to the poor air quality, an air purifier had frozen, and the single, expensive alarm had not gone off the narrator notes. All of their lives had been saved by Claribel.
What is the moral of the story feathered friend?A small canary on a space station helps save lives in Arthur Clarke's science fiction short story Feathered Friend, which is about her. The narrator claims that he is not aware of a rule banning pets from being on space stations and that Sven would disregard it in any case.
Claribel was passing out due to the poor air quality, an air purifier had frozen, and the single, expensive alarm had not gone off the narrator notes. Everyone's lives had been saved by Claribel, and they all care for her as if she were their own. It implies that the crew values Claribel's presence.
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How do the descriptions in this passage support Tan's
purpose?
Dinner threw me deeper into despair. My relatives licked
the ends of their chopsticks and reached across the table,
dipping them into the dozen or so plates of food. Robert
and their family waited patiently for platters to be passed
to them. My relatives murmured with pleasure when my
mother brought out the whole steamed fish. Robert
grimaced. Then my father poked his chopsticks just
below the fish eye and plucked out the soft meat. "Amy,
your favorite," he said, offering me the tender fish cheek.
I wanted to disappear.
O Descriptions show that Amy's father pretends she
likes things that she does not
O Descriptions show that Amy cannot make up her
mind whether to be American or Chinese.
O Descriptions show an example of how Amy sees
two cultures reacting to food differently.
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Answer:
descriptions show an example of how Amy sees two cultures reacting to food differently. hope this helps
The specific type of exercise you do will determine the specific benefit you receive.
True?
False?
Why does the speaker use hyperbole here?
H E L P P P P P
Answer:
It's the second one, to show how important and poweful one's home is.
Explanation:
Brainiest?
Answer:
the second
Explanation:
Choose the best revision for each run on sentence
2. Mount Olympus is the highest peak on the island of Cyprus, I would like to visit Cyprus one day.
A. Mount Olympus is the highest peak on the island of Cyprus; I would like to visit Cyprus one day.
B. Mount Olympus is the highest peak on the island of Cyprus. I would like to visit Cyprus one day
C. Mount Olympus is the highest peak on the island of Cyprus, and I would like to visit Cyprus
one day.
Answer:
I think that B is the right answer
Would you rather be in marvel, dc, star wars, or harry potter
Answer:
harry potter wowwwwwww
Answer:
That's hard I love star wars and marvel and the fact that they are both disney both
Explanation:
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Answer:
there aint no question
Explanation:
why volcanic eruption more predictable than earthquake. explain why
Answer:
Volcanoes: Generally speaking, scientists can predict with a relatively good degree of certainty when a volcano will erupt. This is because most volcanoes follow a regular pattern of increasing seismic activity as the eruption approaches, usually in the form of small earthquakes.
He couldn't bear the situation, so he... .......into tears.
Answer:
Bursted
Explanation:
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Answer:I have not read the story but, I belive it is B.
Explanation:
Ok, you can only answer this if you’ve read a book called The Outsiders. Who in the novel is trying to figure out their individuality? How is he doing this?
I will give 40 points
Ponyboy is trying to figure out his individualiy throughout the novel. He's trying to reconile his social class rank along with his gang membership with The Greasers. (I apologize if this is incorrect, I haven't read the novel in a while.)
A. How will Romeo and his friends get into capulet party without being recognized?
List changes to farm rules or policies that occur in chapter 8. You should list at least 5.
Answer:
1. The sixth commandment was changed from, " No animal shall kill any other animal", to "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause".
2. The fifth commandment was changed from, " No animal shall drink alcohol", to "No animal shall drink alcohol to excess"
3. The pigeons were asked to drop their slogan from "Death to Humanity", to "Death to Fredrick".
4. The pigeons were again asked to alter their slogan from, "Death to Fredrick "to "Death to Pilkington".
5. A dog named Pink eye was now to taste Napoleon's food before he ate it to avoid poisoning.
Explanation:
In "Animal Farm", by George Orwell, several changes occurred in the farm in Chapter 8. The sixth commandment had changed with the addition of two words that justified the killing of animals if there was a good reason behind it. When Napoleon drank excess alcohol, he added two words to the fifth commandment to accommodate his indulgence in excess alcohol.
The slangs of the pigeons were changed accordingly as Napoleon changed his enemies. Also, a new dog was assigned to taste Napoleon's food to ensure that it was not poisoned.
What is argumentation? (5 points)
Group of answer choices
Using opinions to support ideas
The art of speaking or writing effectively
An angry confrontation with another
Logical reasoning or the process of debating
Answer:
Logical reasoning or the process of debating
600 word essay about jack from the lord of the files
Explanation:
In the 1990 film adaptation, Jack is portrayed by Chris Furrh. He is sixteen, two years older than Ralph, and has blond hair. Like all the other boys in this version of the story, Jack is American and attends an unnamed American military boarding school. He wears the rank insignia for cadet first lieutenant, making him the third-ranked cadet on the island, after Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Ralph and Cadet Captain Roger.
Jack in this version speaks faster than his British counterpart in the 1963 film does, and more often. He swears violently, more than anyone else in the film. He is vain, arrogant, and immature, but as he becomes leader of the Hunters and then ousts Ralph as the Chief, he quickly adopts a brutal and authoritarian style of leadership. In this version of the story, several boys leave with Jack immediately when he declares he will form his own camp. Jack relies on Roger throughout the film as a right-hand-man and enforcer.
Jack is visibly shocked when Roger kills Piggy, but does nothing about it. Instead, he drives Ralph away and soon sets most of the island on fire in an effort to force Ralph out of hiding. When U.S. Marines land just as the boys are about to kill Ralph, Jack, like the others, is completely surprised and unsure of what to do.
Jack's last name is never said in the 1990 film, or is his cadet rank actually referred to. He quickly dispenses with his uniform and any formalities of military rank, in any case, and all the boys simply refer to and address him as "Jack", or as "Chief" once he has overthrown Ralph and taken charge as the new leader.
Answer:
LORD OF THE FLIES – CHARACTER ESSAY ON JACK
Choose a novel with a character who you find fascinating. With reference to the text show how the writer made the character fascinating.
William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies is a novel in which Jack is a fascinating character. In the book a group of boys are stranded on a desert island and must work out how to survive. Golding makes Jack a fascinating character as he makes him change from a darling little boy into a terrifying and reckless young man. We can explore how this change takes place.
At the start of the book Jack is clearly still confined by society’s rules and still wants to be seen as good. We know this as in the scene where he catches a pig he struggles to kill it and we’re told ““he hadn’t because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh”. Here, the word choice of ‘enormity’ tells us that Jack finds killing the pig a big deal, he struggles to murder a living thing as he’s never done this before. The description of the knife ‘descending’ reinforces this as even though the knife is traveling a short distance to Jack it feels like an eternity as he tries to commit a big act of killing. The words ‘living flesh’ shows Jack still empathises with the pig and doesn’t want to kill it. At this point it is clear Jack still wants to follow normal rules and thinks that hurting things is wrong.
Jack begins to change slowly and develops a crazy and violent side. We see this when his hunting job starts to take over his mind and we are told Jack had a “compulsion to track down and kill things that was swallowing him up”. The word ‘compulsion’ suggests that this feeling is not something Jack has any control over; it is almost instinctive for him or a crazy addiction. This is reinforced by the idea that this feeling was ‘swallowing’ him up, it was a feeling or thought that was taking over his life and killing a pig became the only thing he could think about. There’s a possibility that Jack became so fixated as he felt like a failure and less masculine for failing to kill the pig in the first place and now wants to kill one to prove he is a man. This makes Jack fascinating as it is difficult to understand how someone could want to kill something, or be so fixated on that, unless they were going crazy in some way.
Explanation:
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You witnessed a fight between two boys and your teacher ask to narrate
I don't know about you, but I'd look the teacher in their eyes, and tell them that I ain't a snitch. I don't care if I get suspended, detention, or even ISS, my dad taught me to never be a snitch so I won't be one.