Match the literary terms to the examples.

For:

Alliteration

a
“His heart pounded – a drum in his chest.”

b
“The sweet perfume danced across the room with every spray."

c
“Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.”

d
“My mom will kill me, if I use all the cell phone minutes again!”

e
“Warm winds whipped through the will

How do you think advertising directed at children influences what they buy or ask parents to buy

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

Why is figure of speech important in reading and writing?