The Pit and the Pendulum part 2 questions

1. What effect does withholding information about the narrator's situation have on the reader?

2. What new details are revealed about the narrator's situation in lines 93-100?

3. Why do you think Poe might have waited to give these details to the reader?

4. Review lines 102-103 and identify phrases that contribute to Gothic themes.

Select the correct text in the passage. in this excerpt from black beauty by anna sewell, identify the transition word or phrase.

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

"a dream deferred" what happens to a dream deferred? does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? or fester like a sore- and then run? does it stink like rotten meat? or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet? maybe it just sags like a heavy load. or does it explode? by langston hughes use the task 3 link as needed to locate terms. what does this poem say? 1 point what is the structure of this poem? 1 point what images does this poem create in your mind?