Read this stanza from "the raven."

back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
soon again i heard a tapping something louder than before.
"surely," said i, "surely that is something at my window lattice;
let me see, then, what thereat is and this mystery explore–
let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; –
'tis the wind and nothing more."

this stanza contributes to the suspense of the poem because

a) the reader knows what is making the noise while the speaker does not.
b) the speaker and the reader wait again to find out what is making the noise.
c) the tapping gets louder, which foreshadows that the noise is made by a bird.
d) the wind gets stronger and makes more noise against the speaker’s window.

What is the function of an economic system?

"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

In what way was the modernist element of disillusionment shown in “the jitling of granny weatherall”? a) the story rejects traditional, chronological order. b) granny feels jilted at both her wedding and her deathbed. c) the narration makes heavy use of symbolism. d) granny’s thoughts are hard to distinguish from real events