In paragraph form (4-6 sentences), write a detailed summary about Edgar Allan Poe's The Tale Heart using at
least four (4) of the following vocabulary words: acute,
audacity, conceive, dissimulation, profound, repose, sagacity,
vehemently. Please bold or underline the vocabulary you
use. You may use your copy of the story and any class
notes to assist you.
BEFORE YOU SUBMIT:
1. Do all of your sentences begin with a capital letter?
2. Are all of your sentences complete? (sentence=subject +verb+complete thought)
3. Have you used at least 4 vocabulary words in your paragraph?
4. Do all of your sentences end with appropriate punctuation?
5. Have you bolded or underlined the vocabulary words?

citizens are given 25 years of life to prove their worth to society; if they fail to do great things

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

no plagarism

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in the quotation from passage, connie willis states that literature is a way for authors from the past to communicate with readers of today. we can read their stories, books, and other texts to learn lessons about life. willis refers to these lessons as messages “from beyond the grave.” willis has a favorable viewpoint about the timelessness of literature.

the answer is c) !