Unit 4

What does his name mean? The name Mark Twain means the river was two fathoms deep.
What is his real name? samuel langhorne clemens
Why are his books controversial? because he uses the word nigger
What are some interesting facts about his life?

What is the meaning of irony? Provide an example. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. the person who says nigger is black and finds it offenseive if others say it but they still say it.

Who is Jules Verne? What did he write? What is his connection to Twain? he was one of the first writters of science fiction. he wrote the journey to the center of the earth, from the earth to the moon, and around the world in eighty days

the fall of the house of usher

unity of effect, a single overall feeling
Poe's particular genius was for exploring the strange and fantastic, covexing, psychological terror through carefully chosen details and events
mood-the feeling or atmosphere
He recives a letter from a old friend that calls him to go to the house of usher.
He finds out that the brother and the sister are both sick.
The sister passes out and the brother barries her alive.
she comes back out and kills the brother
they both die and he runs away
as he is leaving the house falls down because the curse is over
They had a family tree with no branches going out
The brother had hightened seances and could hear everything.
they were all crazy

the signal man by charles dickens

There is a goast and whenever he appears something bad happens
a train colision
a lady dying on the train
In the end the man gets run over by the train
the goast puts one hand over his face and waves the other hand
It is in the tunel with the red light
The goust comes when bad things are going to happen but there is nothing he can do about it so he doesn't know why the goast is coming
hello down there

The Raven

the raven was a bird of prophecy mystery, evil, omens, and death
end rhyme- similar or identical sounds at the ends of lines
internal rhyme rymes within a line
rhyme scheme basic pattern of the end rhymes
the bird comes and talks to him
hes scared that the raven has come to tell him bad news
he has lost his love lenor

the masque of the red death

the dance of death- danse macabre
big bug behind the door- says how the suspence is the worst part. nothing behind the door will scare you as much as getting to the door
allegory- a work with two layers of meaning where persons, ofjects,and events stand for abstract ideas or qualities
sharp points of dizziness and bleeding, seizures that would last half an hour
the prince got a thousand friends and closed off the way to the outside world so they wouldn't get sick
He through a masquerade
there were 7 rooms 7 diff collars the last was violet but the windo made it red
at 12 the music stoped and the stranger shows up
they all get the plague and die

the abbey ment to be safe and holly
the 7 rooms out of the ordinary
the clock gives them a bad feeling
the stranger represents the plauge.

The Devil and Tom Walker

Kidd the pirate buried his treasure but never went back to get it.
The devil as he always does with buried treasure took it under his guardianship.
Tom walker lives with his wife. His wife would always try to hid things from him because she wanted it all to be hers. They lived in a run down house and don't have alot of money. His wife is strong and loud and they always got into fights.
One day he takes a shortcut home and goes to were it is said the indians had placed spells
He sits on a log and starts to kick around in the dirt and finds something hard. He digs it out and fings that it is a skull with a tomahawk in it.
A person apears. He is black and has red eyes. He is wearing somewhat indian clothes. he is the devil. the trees fall down when people die.
The trees have wealthy peoples names written in them.
The one that he was sitting on had just been cut down and said the name Crowninshield.
Tom asks him who he is and the devil starts telling him. tome says "The up shot of all which is that if i mistake not you are he commonly called Old Scratch" Old Scratch- the devil
the devil tells tom of the tresure and the conditions to get it.
Tom asks how he could know if what he is saying is true so the devil touches his head and says "There's my signature"
When tom gets home and looks in the mirror he sees a finger print burnt into his forhead
His wife tells him that in the paper it says tht Crowninshield had died. This is when he realizes that it is real. He tells his wife about what has happened and she tells him that he should do it because she wants the money. He tells her no because he doesn't think that it is worth it. She decides that if he wont she will and just keep all the money to herself.
she goes and explains about the man and says that she has to go back but doesn't say why.
She leaves again and doesn't come back and doesn't come back. Tom is concered expecially when he finds out that she has taken everything valuble with her.
nobody knows what really happened to her.
Tom went out looking for her and saw crows eating something and sees her apren and the valubles in the tree above it.
but when he climbs up the tree all he finds in it is a heart and liver.
Tom sees hair that looks like it came from the devil and thinks that Old Scratch must have had a tough time of it.
Tom goes back because he thinks that he should make the deal with the devil. the devil tells him that he should put the money into the black trafic but tom won't become a slave trader. so instead they decide that tom will be a usurer. a person whoo lends money especially at an ususually or unlawfully high rate of interest.
Tome opens up in Bostern and gets lots of custemers. he becomes very wealthy and builds a big house gets a carriage and a horse.
he decies that he is going to try to cheat the devil. he becomes a churchgoer and prays
he carries a bible around with him and he gets his horse ready in case he would ever have to make a get away from the devil.
He finially gets mad and cries out for the devil to come and take him.
the devil comes and puts him on the horse and the horse takes him awa in the storm with fire coming up on every step
every thing that he had ends up to the devil