No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a
voice from within the tomb! – by a cry, at first, muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman – a howl! – a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of , conjointly from the throats of the in their agony and of the demons that exult in the
— Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat”
Analyze:
1. The dashes in this long sentence set off a series of appositives. (An appositive is a noun or noun phrase placed beside another noun or noun phrase and used to identify or explain it.) What noun phrase is explained by the appositives?
2. This sentence makes syntactic and semantic sense if it ends with the first exclamation point. What do the appositives add to the meaning and effectiveness of the sentence?
Apply:
Rewrite Poe’s sentence, changing it into a series of short sentences. Read your sentences to the class and discuss how the use of short sentences changes the overall meaning of the original.
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In what ways do “the lamb” and “the tyger” represent opposite sides of human existence? a. “the lamb” urges passive control, while “the tyger” glorifies man’s dominance over nature. b. “the lamb” urges meek acceptance, while “the tyger” glorifies nature and power. c. “the lamb” urges childlike faith, while “the tyger” glorifies man’s experience.
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Which of the following describes the structure of this excerpt best? a.free verse b.sonnet c.ballad d.blank verse
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English, 22.06.2019 08:00
Reading poetry to an audience is considered a form of a. vocal art. b. oral language. c. conversational skills. d. performance cues.
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