50 pts ! read john f. kennedy’s “city upon a hill" speech and answer these questions.

who is the intended audience of the speech?

what assumptions does the author make about the values of the audience?

how does the intended audience influence the tone of the speech?

how does the author arrange the ideas?

how does the organization of the text fulfill the author's purpose?

how does the author appeal to logic and reason (logos) or emotion (pathos)?

what kinds of evidence—facts, anecdotes, analogies, allusions—does the author use?

how does the supporting evidence fulfill the purpose of the text?

does the speech succeed in fulfilling the author's purpose or intentions?

what do the speech and the author's chosen strategies reveal about the culture that produced it?

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning