LAR Poe and Bradbury :)
Resolution? Full or partial?
- Eckels realizes his error (finds crushed butterfly on shoe) and its repercussions (changed language, government, ideas, colors, smells, etc.). - Time "wins" - super powerful, relentless, it marches on, even when humans try to manipulate it. - Eckels "loses" - Travis kills him, the penalty for stepping off the path and changing time. - Full Resolution
Rising action of The Raven?
- He talks to himself and repeats dialogue to get rid of his unease. (Poe taps into a universal fear and vulnerability, which builds tension.) - He answers door. No one there. Lenore, is that you? (sorrow, longing) - A voice echos, "Lenore!" (Echos don't change punctuation/tone. Who speaks? Mysterious.) - There's another tap, this time at the window. He opens the window. - Raven flies in — unafraid, looking serious, acting like royalty - and sits on a statue of the goddess of wisdom. - Narrator jokingly asks, "What's your name, royal bird from the underworld? - Raven says, "Nevermore." (Odd -- bird speaks and says its name is No??)
Climax of The Raven?
- Is Lenore in heaven? Reply: no. (Lenore is not in heaven, implying hell, and/or you will never see her again.) - Get out! Go back to where you came from! You lied about Lenore! Let me wallow in my sorrow! Take your beak out of my heart! Reply: no. (I'll stay forever.)
Character in The Raven
- Narrator = unnamed protagonist. - Tired: "weak and weary" and "nodded, nearly napping" (alliteration). - Alone and melancholy (sad longing). - Longing for his lost Lenore - dead love of his life (girlfriend). She is very dear to him. - Describes her as a maiden (young, unmarried woman), who rare (no one like her) and radiant (her beauty shines like the sun), and whom the angels named (pure, dead). - Tries to escape his sorrow (deep grief) by reading books. - Wishes for the "morrow" - hopes the night will pass quickly.
Setting of the Raven? Where? When? Mood?
- Where: home library or bedchamber. - When: midnight, December. - Dreary: gloomy, bleak, dismal, cold. - Setting details reflect character's sorrow.
"There was a sound of thunder." 1) What MOPSHA+ device is Bradbury using? 2) Evidence?
1) Motif & Full resolution 2) Passage 12 connects back to the title and reveals the resolution of the story, which the reader needs to infer. The "sound of thunder" in this moment is the sound of the gunshot that kills Eckels. - Full Resolution: Eckels realizes his error (finds crushed butterfly on shoe) and its repercussions (changed language, government, ideas, colors, smells, etc.). Time "wins" - super powerful, relentless, it marches on, even when humans try to manipulate it. Eckels "loses" - Travis kills him, the penalty for stepping off the path and changing time. - Motif: Bradbury uses thunder a lot. That's called a "motif." In this story, he used it four times - the title, the "sound of thunder" when the dinosaur stomps and roars, again with "lizard thunder," and the gunshot in this passage). He also wrote about thunder in "All Summer in a Day."
"He took a few steps, blinking, shuffling. 85 'Not that way!' 86 The Monster, at the first motion, lunged forward with a terrible scream. It covered one hundred yards in six seconds. The rifles jerked up and blazed fire. A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood. The Monster roared, teeth glittering with sun. The rifles cracked again. Their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder. The great level of the reptile's tail swung up, lashed sideways. Trees exploded in clouds of leaf and branch. The Monster twitched its jeweler's hands down to fondle at the men, to twist them in half, to crush them like berries, to cram them into its teeth and its screaming throat. Its boulderstone eyes leveled with the men. They saw themselves mirrored. They fired at the metallic eyelids and the blazing black iris. 87 Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche, Tyrannosaurus fell" (Bradbury 6). 1) What MOPSHA+ device is Bradbury using? 2) Evidence?
1. 2 similes, 3 onomatopoeias, and 4 metaphors 2. Scream - onomatopoeia. Windstorm - metaphor. Roared - onomatopoeia. Shriek - onomatopoeia. Lizard thunder - metaphor. Jeweler's hands - metaphor. Boulderstone eyes - metaphor. Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche - similes.
The dinosaur "came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled. And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers. Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger. It closed its mouth in a death grin" (Bradbury 5). 1) What MOPSHA+ device is Bradbury using? 2) Evidence?
1. 6 Metaphors and 3 similes. 2. METAPHOR... Dinosaur = great evil god. Effect: overwhelmingly large. METAPHOR... Dinosaur's claws = watchmaker's hands. Effect: its claws are tiny and delicate (in contrast to its large body). METAPHOR... Dinosaur's leg = a piston. Effect: its movement is ceaseless. SIMILE... Dinosaur's skin = the mail (steel protective mesh) of a terrible (terrifying) warrior. Effect: tough skin. SIMILE... Dinosaur examines men as if they are toys. Effect: dinosaur is overwhelming large in contrast to the small hunters. METAPHOR... Dinosaur's snake neck coiled. Effect: its neck is agile (flexible) and scary. Condensed metaphor. METAPHOR... Dinosaur's head = a ton of sculptured stone. Effect: head is very heavy. SIMILE... Dinosaur's teeth = daggers. Effect: teeth are very sharp and deadly. METAPHOR... Dinosaur's eyes rolled, ostrich eggs. Effect: eyes are very large.
1492. 1776. 1812. 1) What MOPSHA+ device is Bradbury using? 2) Evidence? 3) Effect?
1. Allusion 2. 1492 - Columbus "discovers" America - the start of European domination and control of North America and the Caribbean. - 1776 - Signing of the Declaration of Independence, marking the break between the colonies and Great Britain, declaring that "All men are created equal." - 1812 - War of 1812 - war between the newly formed United States and Great Britain over maritime (shipping and trade) rights. 3) As they travel back to the present, they "pass" all of these major moments, all of which may be significantly changed by Eckels' careless footprint. These allusions imply that when they land the time machine, America as they know it may not exist and it might not be a democracy. (That's true. Eckels discovers a Hitler-like man is elected president of the U.S. - because Eckels crushed a butterfly.)
The man behind the desk talks about the recent presidential election, " 'We're lucky. If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship. There's an anti everything man for you, a militarist, anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual' " (Bradbury 1). 1) What MOPSHA+ device is Bradbury using? 2) Evidence?
1. Allusion 2. Deutscher is German word that translates as "German man." Hint! Let's think... What real German leader was pro-military, hated certain humans, and burned books — someone whose reign ended shortly before Bradbury wrote this story (1952)? Answer: Hitler. Bradbury alludes to Hitler when he names the president "Deutscher." (At the end, Eckels is very upset that this Hitler-like leader has been elected to be president.)
After Lesperance tells a regretful and panicked Eckels not to run from the dinosaur, but to instead take refuge the machine, Eckels says, " 'Yes.' Eckels seemed to be numb. He looked at his feet as if trying to make them move. He gave a grunt of helplessness" (Bradbury 5). 1) What MOPSHA+ device is Bradbury using? 2) Evidence?
1. Character development 2. At the beginning of the story, he is overly confident and brazen. Now, he demonstrates fear and helplessness. He is humbled. He shows it by the way he looks at his feet, numb and unable to move. The grunt, an onomatopoeia, shows he is also nearly unable to speak — so overcome by fear and humility.
Name 5 theme topics of All Summer in a Day
1. Cruelty 2. isolation 3. disbelief 4. jealousy, 5. being different
1. Conflict of A Sound of Thunder? 2. Evidence?
1. Eckels vs. Time (Person vs. Nature) 2. - Goes back in time - steps in mud; ruins everything - dangerous, but Eckles does it anyway - does not obey instructions & messes up future.
Climax of A Sound Of Thunder
1. Eckles becomes scared, different than before 2. He starts running of the path in nervousness. (he forever changed time, but he doesn't know this yet. Time starts gaining and winning.) 3. All their rifles aim and shoot at the dino (Most intense turning point of the story)
After finding mud on Eckels' shoe, Travis freaks out: "Who knows what he's done to Time, to History!" 1) What MOPSHA+ device is Bradbury using? 2) Evidence? 3) **NOTE**
1. Foreshadowing 2. Passage 9 is yet another example of foreshadowing, a sort of extension of the first "don't step off the path" foreshadowing. (There is so much foreshadowing in this story!) - Eckels has indeed stepped off the path and left his footprint, and it is "like a Grand Canyon." Later, we find out Eckels' footprint does cause an irreparable change to Time and History. 3. The capitalization of "Time" and "History" is also interesting. Bradbury might be emphasizing the importance of these two things, and how Eckels' careless footprint may have altered both of them. Time and History are very powerful forces upon which every aspect of our lives depends, and Eckels just messed with them in unpredictable ways.
Eckels, the guides, and the hunters "sat in the ancient wilderness. Far birds' cries blew on a wind, and the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood" (Bradbury 3). 1) What MOPSHA+ device is Bradbury using? 2) Evidence?
1. Foreshadowing 2. Flowers are blood-red. Why blood? It's a negative image that doesn't match the rest of the peaceful image. It hints at the bloody death to come (dinosaur, Eckels).
" 'We guarantee nothing,' said the official, 'except the dinosaurs.' He turned. 'This is Mr. Travis, your Safari Guide in the Past. He'll tell you what and where to shoot. If he says no shooting, no shooting. If you disobey instructions, there's a stiff penalty of another ten thousand dollars, plus possible government action, on your return' " (Bradbury 1). 1) What MOPSHA+ device is Bradbury using?
1. Foreshadowing 2. Gives readers a hint that Eckels will disobey the instructions and face a penalty or government action.
Name 3 Theme topics of TTH
1. Guilt 2. Madness 3. Fear
1. Resolution? 2. Partial or Full?
1. He admits to the murder and voluntarily shows the burial place to cops. (We can infer that he will soon be arrested and that he is telling this story from jail or a mental asylum.) His madness is no longer a secret - society knows. 2. Partial - He is still mentally unhinged (not cured). But he's no longer a threat.
1. Symbolism in TTH 2. Where in the story does Poe give a hint to this?
1. Heartbeat - Represents the killers madness and later sense of guilt. - Eye = killer's madness. He believes that the old man's eye (which is just a cataract) is threatening him and that he must kill its owner, whom he likes, to get rid of that threat. 2. In the title - the heartbeat is a telltale (evidence rich) symbol in the story.
The raven's "fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core [heart]" (Poe 3). 1. What MOPSHA+ device is Poe using? 2. Explain
1. Hyperbole 2. The eyes burn, but it doesn't actually burn.
"The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever. Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever. Eckels, balanced on the narrow Path, aimed his rifle playfully" (Bradbury 4). 1) What MOPSHA+ devices is Bradbury using? 2) Evidence?
1. Hyperbole, simile, and metaphor. 2. Hyperbole - "[T]he jungle was the entire world forever and forever." This over-exaggeration helps to emphasize the vastness of the jungle. Simile - "Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls soaring." This double simile compares the sounds of the jungle to music and pterodactyls' wings to flying tents so the reader can imagine the beauty and loudness of the sounds. Metaphor - "[P]terodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever" compares the pterodactyls to gigantic bats and their wings to caverns, emphasizing how large they are. Passage 5 also helps to characterize Eckels (when he "aimed his rifle playfully"). This passage reveals his bravado and carelessness at the beginning of the story.
1. Conflict of TTH 2. Evidence?
1. Killer vs. His own madness (Person vs. Self) 2. He thinks the old man's eye is his enemy. But his mental instability is the real antagonist - the force annoying him and blocking him from thinking and acting logically. He is nervous, fearful, and angry around the eye. He decides to kill its owner. This madness is a secret - not even this dangerous protagonist realizes that he is mad.
1. Climax of TTH 2. Most intense moment? 3. Turning point of story?
1. Kills the old man, chops up his body, fearful, his thoughts turn into actions. (madness still exists) 2. Intense - The protagonist murders the old man! He gruesomely dismembers the body and buries it under the floorboards! The heartbeat is super loud and fast! A moment before his death, the old man shrieks! (The old man may be able to see the killer coming, at least with the one working eye, but he may be frozen with fear, staring at a lantern's light that is moving slowly toward him in the night. He emits a "groan of mortal terror.") 3. Turning Point - On the eighth night of stalking, the killer murders the old man by smothering him with a mattress and chops up his body. His mad thoughts turn into a mad, gruesome action. Unlike the stalking, this action is irreversible. He thinks the problem is solved because the old man is dead, so the eye is gone. But we know that the problem (his madness) still exists.
Inciting Incident of All Summer in a Day
1. Margot's classmates lock her in the closet against her will and unbeknownst to the teacher. 2. Margot fights against this - throws herself against door; muffled cries. 3. First super cruel action that peers take against Margot. First time Margot fights back. Without this moment, there would be less tension. The students would have nothing to regret later.
"The children lay out, laughing, on the jungle mattress" (Bradbury 3). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Metaphor 2. Compares the plants on the ground of the jungle to a mattress. Another condensed metaphor! 3. Ground is soft and padded with so many fresh vines.
When the rain returns, it is "falling in tons and avalanches" (Bradbury 4). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect? 4) What other MOPSHA+ device is in this quote?
1. Metaphor 2. Compares the rain falling to an avalanche. 3. Overwhelmingly heavy. 4. Layered with a hyperbole: "tons" over-exaggerates for a dramatic. Not really "tons" of rain, but overwhelmingly large amount.
"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!' " (Poe 5). 1. What MOPSHA+ device is Poe using? 2. Explain
1. Metaphor 2. Comparing beak and heart
Margot's poem: "I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour" (Bradbury 1). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?1)
1. Metaphor 2. Comparing the sun to a flower that blossoms for an hour. 3. The sun's appearance on Venus is beautiful but brief.
When the sun comes out, the jungle vines were "a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of fleshlike weed, wavering, flowering in this brief spring" (Bradbury 3). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Metaphor 2. Extended metaphor comparing the jungle's vines to a nest of octopi, its tentacles swaying in clusters. 3. Vines are growing very fast, taking advantage of the sun's rare appearance.
The rain is compared to the "endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof" (Bradbury 1). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Metaphor 2. Falling raindrops are compared to clear bead necklaces shaking on a roof's surface. 3. Raindrops are large and loud.
It rains every day. The children "always awoke to the tatting drum" (Bradbury 1). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Metaphor 2. Rain falling is compared to the sound of a consistent drumbeat. 3. Rain is loud and constant.
Margot hears her peers stir while they sleep and she assumes that the children are "dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with" (Bradbury 1). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Metaphor 2. Sun is compared to a yellow crayon and large round coin. 3. Margot's peers seem to only remember basic fragments of memories about the sun: yellow, large, round.
Margot "was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost" (Bradbury 2). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Metaphor 2. Compares Margot to an old (black and white) photograph and a ghost. T 3. The metaphor helps to characterize her — pale, quiet, forgotten, like she is not even there.
The children "hated her [Margot's] pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future" (Bradbury 2). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Metaphor 2. Compares Margot's face to snow. Sometimes metaphors are short and condensed like this! 3. Margot is very pale because she has not had access to the sun.
"[T]he concussion of storms [are] so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands" (Bradbury 1). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Metaphor 2. Comparing the storms to tidal waves. 3. Storms are overwhelmingly heavy.
"It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water" (Bradbury 1). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Onomatopoeia 3. Rain is loud and constant.
The children "always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests, and their dreams were gone" (Bradbury 1). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Onomatopoeia 3. Rain is loud and constant.
"A boom of thunder startled them and like leaves before a new hurricane, they tumbled upon each other and ran" (Bradbury 4). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect? 4) What other MOPSHA+ device is in this quote? 5) Effect?
1. Onomatopoeia: The word "boom." 3. Thunder is loud and surprising. 4. Layered with a simile: Compares the children to the way leaves tumble in the wind right before a hurricane hits an area. 5. Children are moving frantically again, but this time in an effect to avoid the rain.
Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead. 134 "Not a little thing like that! Not a butterfly!" cried Eckels. 135 It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across Time. Eckels' mind whirled. It couldn't change things. Killing one butterfly couldn't be that important! Could it? 1) What MOPSHA+ device is Bradbury using? 2) Evidence?
1. Possible allusion to the "Butterfly Effect" 2. The "Butterfly Effect" is an idea invented by the American meteorologist Edward N. Lorenz (1917-2008). - He wrote about the possibility that small causes may have momentous effects in weather. - He suggested, hypothetically, that the flap of a butterfly's wings might ultimately cause a tornado somewhere else. - In Bradbury's story, the butterfly's symbolic meaning (the idea that a small mistake can create lasting damage) is similar to the scientific idea. - It's unclear who inspired whom. - Did Bradbury allude to Lorenz's butterfly... or did Lorenz allude to Bradbury's butterfly? - They both lived in the same era. Their ideas (real and fictional) complement one another. One sort of honors the other.
1. Resolution of The Raven? 2. Full or partial?
1. Raven, still sitting (how long??) on the statue of the goddess of wisdom, casts a shadow on floor. - "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted - nevermore!" (Poe 5). My soul is trapped under the raven's dark "shadow". . . forever. 2. Full - Sorrow wins. Narrator loses.
The children "turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes" (Bradbury 1). 1) Simile or Metaphor? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Simile 2. Compares the children spinning to a feverish (intensely active) bicycle wheel. 3. Emphasizes their excitement.
After the sun appears, the children approach the closet where Margot is and "stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor" (Bradbury 4). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Simile 2. Compares the children standing to stakes stuck in the floor. 3. The children are very still, dreading opening the door and having to face their guilt.
"The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun" (Bradbury 1). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect? 4) What other MOPSHA+ device is in this quote?
1. Simile 2. Compares the children to a crowded garden of roses and weeds. 3. The children are standing very close together and are eager about the sun's arrival. 4. Layered with foreshadowing: hints that there are "good" classmates (roses) and the "bad" classmates ("weeds").
"Then, wildly, like animals escaped from their caves, they [the children] ran and ran in shouting circles" (Bradbury 3). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Simile 2. Compares the children to wild animals escaped from caves. 3. The children have been cooped up for too long and are now frantic (out of control and moving fast) and excited about playing in the sunshine.
Margot also reports that the sun is "like a fire [...] in the stove" (Bradbury 2). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Simile 2. Compares the sun to a fire in a stove. 3. Sun is hot.
"All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like a lemon it was" (Bradbury 1). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Simile 2. Compares the sun to a lemon. 3. Bright yellow.
Margot reports that the sun is "like a penny" (Bradbury 2). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect?
1. Simile 2. Compares the sun to a penny. 3. Sun is round, shiny, and a bronze color (sometimes).
"The rain stopped. It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting off all noise, all of the blasts and repercussions and thunders, and then, second, ripped the film from the projector and inserted in its place a beautiful tropical slide which did not move or tremor. The world ground to a standstill. The silence was so immense and unbelievable that you felt your ears had been stuffed or you had lost your hearing altogether. The children put their hands to their ears" (Bradbury 3). 1) Simile, Metaphor or Onomatopoeia? 2) Comparing what two things? 3) Effect? 4) What other MOPSHA+ device is in this quote? 5) Effect?
1. Simile 2. Compares the sudden silence of the rain stopping to an old projector's filmstrip breaking (a film about avalanches and other loud natural events) and then the sudden replacement of that film with a peaceful beach film. At the end, the simile extends yet again when the author compares the rain stopping to the silence experienced when your ears are being stuffed with cotton or when you become suddenly and entirely deaf. 3. This long simile emphasizes the abrupt, violent change from loud to silent when the rain stopped and the sun appeared. 4. Layered with an oxymoron: the silence was deafening. (The words seem to contradict, but it's actually the perfect phrase for this situation.) 5. Silence was overwhelmingly abrupt, absolute, and foreign to the children.
Travis explains the importance of staying on the established path: "Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity. Queen Elizabeth might never be born, Washington might not cross the Delaware, there might never be a United States at all. So be careful. Stay on the Path. Never step off!" (Bradbury 3). 1) What MOPSHA+ devices is Bradbury using? 2) Evidence?
1. Simile and Foreshadowing 2. Simile - "Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon" compares a man's footprint to the size and depth of the Grand Canyon to emphasize how enormous the repercussions would be. Foreshadowing - The repeated warning to stay on the path—to not even leave a footprint—suggests that someone (Eckels) will NOT stay on the path later. It hints that his careless footprint will have a far-reaching impact (killing a butterfly, thus significantly changing the future).
Two theme topics of The Raven?
1. Sorrow 2. Grief
1. Climax of All Summer in a Day? 2. Turning point? 3. Most intense moment?
1. Sun comes out! 2. Classmates soak up the rare sunlight and joyfully celebrate! Sensory overload! (Fast-growing vines, deafening silence, enjoying the sunburn, fresh air, laughing, frenzied running, staring at sun, tears). Savoring it all! 3. - Start to believe Margot (b/c they saw the sun themselves) - Th most socially isolated she has ever been, forget about her. (odd b/c protagonist is not there.
1. Symbolism in The Raven? 2. Explain?
1. The Raven - represents the sorrow that will never leave the narrator 2. Raven is a daily reminder of his sorrow, which will last forever. - Terrifying notion! Again, Poe loves to terrify us with "monsters of the mind."
1. Resolution? 2. Partial or full?
2. - They must believe her now (implied) - No need to be jealous because they saw the sun - no more cruelty and isolation, let her out, but not quite kindness yet. - Classmates appear ashamed and regretful - realize their action cannot be repaired - Next sun sighting: age 16. They are monsters (metaphor).
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
Symbolism
A device in literature where something tangible represents something intangible.
Scowl
A facial expression of dislike or displeasure
Expendable
Able to be used up and then discarded or replaced
resilient
Able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly
All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury
All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury
Inciting Incident of The Raven?
As he reads, fights sleep, and misses his beloved Lenore, there's a tap at the door in the middle of the night.
Falling action of TTH
Cops show up to investigate the source of the shriek. He gives them a tour of the house. They chat. Cocky, the killer thinks he's calm and clever as he places his seat over the burial spot. But he starts to lose his cool, as he thinks that he hears the dead man's heartbeat (really his own, increasing pace/volume as he gets more nervous, trying to conceal his guilt). His odd behavior likely makes the cops stick around.
Inciting Incident of A Sound of Thunder
Eckels gets in the time machine and it leaves for the past.
Inciting Incident of TTH
First night of stalking. he puts his plan into action.
Conflict? Give evidence of All Summer in a Day
Margot vs. Classmates (Person vs. Society) Evidence: 1. William torments her with the possibility that the rain will last forever. 2. Claims she is not the author of the poem. 3. Speaks savagely to her, shoves her. 4. Successfully encourages others to follow his lead.
Conflict of The Raven
Narrator vs. his sorrow (Person vs. Self)
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Symbolism In A Sound of Thunder
The butterfly- represents the butterfly effect. (Small things can cause big actions) The sound of thunder- represents the sound of the T-rex's steps and the sound of Travis's gun. Bullets - represents the disturbance of the past, future all at once
Summary
The dino is gigantic, frightening, and threatening.
Rising action of TTH
The protagonist stalks the old man for six more nights.
Mope
To be sad and gloomy; to lose interest in the things that usually bring pleasure
Rising action of A Sound Of Thunder
When the dinosaur comes out, and bradbury explains all his features; Gigantic, Threatening, Frightening.
Habit
a behavior that is repeated so often that it becomes almost automatic
Countenance
a person's face or facial expression
Chattered
clicked together, as in cold or fear
Subtle
delicate, elusive, not obvious
Perfunctory
done without care; in a routine fashion
Interminable
endless, so long as to seem endless
Bitter
exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
Tender
fragile, sensitive; easily bruised or gentle; inexperienced
Vital
necessary or essential to life
Boisterous
noisy and rowdy; unruly
Mere
nothing more than; only
Petulant
peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset
Balm
something that heals or comforts; soothing; an oil or ointment
Mood of The Tell Tale Heart?
spooky, dark, tense, and suspenseful
Tend
to take care of; manage
ominous
unfavorable, threatening, of bad omen
Trudge
walking slowly with heavy steps typically due to exhaustion.
Frail
weak and delicate
Enveloped
wrap up, cover, or surround completely
