Tw // blood gore s/h I pursed my lips as I dug the knife into my skin, drawing blood into a bowl. I whimpered and screamed as I forced myself to go further, as far as possible. With a final wail of pain, I let the blade go and wrapped my arm in a rag.
Twirling my finger in my own blood, I whispered a few words. My eyes became white, pale, and I felt rays of light emit from them. To be blinded by your own sight is frightening. But I knew what would come. So I disappeared, not to be seen for years.
Would you like to hear a tale?
Of course you do. But, my story is not the one that needs to be told. Perhaps one day you’ll learn about the wicked witch, the one who wished only to save two children from the burdens of royalty and the shackles of society. Maybe you’ll learn about the mage, who in a desperate attempt to survive planted one of three seeds, that which only bloom a singular day, invisible to those who are unaware of its existence. Or maybe, you’ll see the story that's unfolding all around us, in an empire that's shattered in half and dangling on a thread.
This tale has not yet started. But it’s beginning. It surrounds us, it watches us, it kills us. Our stories our our beginnings and our ends. There can be no tale without death, and if anyone insists otherwise, a liar they are.
My dear Gloriana, I know I have wronged you. But I can make this right. Your children will not be alone. Til we meet again, in Heaven.

Read this passage from "the american dream." one of the first things we notice in this dream is an amazing universalism. it does not say some men, but it says all men. it does not say all white men, but it says all men, which includes black men. it does not say all gentiles, but it says all men, which includes jews. it does not say all protestants, but it says all men, which includes catholics. how does the use of rhythm contribute to the ideas in the passage? a .it supports key points by connecting them. b. it states rational ideas to support a claim. c. it convinces people that the ideas are true. d. it connects the ideas to people in a specific place.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

How do "the jilting of granny weatherall" and "the love somg of j alfred prufrock" differ?