Anybody that's read Theme for English B.. help! "Theme for English B" TDQ's

1. Who is the speaker of this poem and what inferences can you make about his struggle with his identity?

2. What can we learn about the dash when the instructor speaks?

3. How does the instructor’s use of the dash help readers understand the point being made?

4. How does the speaker's question, "I wonder if it's that simple," establish the tone of the poem?

5. What lines of the poem convey the speaker's internal struggle with his identity? What realization does he come to about his identity?

6. In response to the assignment, the speaker chose to write a poem rather than an essay. Why might the speaker choose verse rather than prose? Write a short narrative as the poem's narrator explaining your choice.

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The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced

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