- Edgar Allen Poe
- Unity of effect, every detail contributes to a single overall feeling
- Strange, fantastic, phsycological terror
- Mood: feeling, atmosphere
- Large, scary mansion, dark, statues
- Handed down in the family
- Came because Usher was ill, only friend
- Madeline has disease
- Buries Madeline alive to end the family curse, but she comes back to get him, retribution
- Usher and Madeline both die, narrator runs away and the house burns down.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Declaration of Independence definitions
unalienable: that may not be taken away
despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny
transient: passing away with time
usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else
conjured: appealed to
consanguinity: blood relationship
acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand
parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance
insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government
despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny
transient: passing away with time
usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else
conjured: appealed to
consanguinity: blood relationship
acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand
parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance
insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government
Declaration of Independence
The list of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it? They repeat it because it has happened before and want to make a point.
2. Why do they make it personal? They make it personal so that the people will realize what they did wrong, and so hopefully they will change there ways.
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change? They are resistant to change because they dont want to leave behind what they are used to.
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece? He uses the word for and he, to represent that everything has the same amount of importance.
parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why? The most convincing thing was when we got our independence because the british stopped controlling our colony.
1. Why do they repeat it? They repeat it because it has happened before and want to make a point.
2. Why do they make it personal? They make it personal so that the people will realize what they did wrong, and so hopefully they will change there ways.
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change? They are resistant to change because they dont want to leave behind what they are used to.
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece? He uses the word for and he, to represent that everything has the same amount of importance.
parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why? The most convincing thing was when we got our independence because the british stopped controlling our colony.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Mark Twain- A murder, mystery, and a marraige
John Gray is the father
Takes place in deer lick village in Missouri
It is a small town
Small farming community
Mary Gray is the daughter, Hue Gregory is a rich man that loves Mary
Dave Gray is the uncle that hates Hue because when Dave tried to steal Hue's fathers land, Hue prevented him from doing it.
Sarah/Sally Gray is the mother. Brother is Tom.
Hue proposed to Mary and everyone thought it was great because he was rich.
Dave left all his money to Mary.
John forbid Mary to marry Hue because it would just cause a bunch of problems.
One day John found a stranger named George Wayne in the prarie.
Later he admited that his real name is Count Hubert and his father is a Lord.
The count starts expressing an interest in Mary.
One day Dave is talking to the Count then Hue joins their conversation and Dave and Hue got into a fight and Dave threatens to write a new will leaving Mary nothing which isn't what Hue wants.
Dave is murdered and everyone thinks Hue did it because there was a scrap of his jacket, blood on his pants, and a bloody knife in his bed, and because of all the fighting between the 2 the odds are against Hue.
One of Counts friends get arrested and Count and Mary get married.
In the end Count only wanted Mary for the money, and his real name is Gean Mercier.
Takes place in deer lick village in Missouri
It is a small town
Small farming community
Mary Gray is the daughter, Hue Gregory is a rich man that loves Mary
Dave Gray is the uncle that hates Hue because when Dave tried to steal Hue's fathers land, Hue prevented him from doing it.
Sarah/Sally Gray is the mother. Brother is Tom.
Hue proposed to Mary and everyone thought it was great because he was rich.
Dave left all his money to Mary.
John forbid Mary to marry Hue because it would just cause a bunch of problems.
One day John found a stranger named George Wayne in the prarie.
Later he admited that his real name is Count Hubert and his father is a Lord.
The count starts expressing an interest in Mary.
One day Dave is talking to the Count then Hue joins their conversation and Dave and Hue got into a fight and Dave threatens to write a new will leaving Mary nothing which isn't what Hue wants.
Dave is murdered and everyone thinks Hue did it because there was a scrap of his jacket, blood on his pants, and a bloody knife in his bed, and because of all the fighting between the 2 the odds are against Hue.
One of Counts friends get arrested and Count and Mary get married.
In the end Count only wanted Mary for the money, and his real name is Gean Mercier.
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