“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe PROMPT: Analyze how the author’s techniques create a menacing tone. This means, how do the literary devices that Poe uses in “The Tell-Tale Heart” create a sense of menace? Use the questions we answered together in “The Tell-Tale Heart” document to help you choose details from the text […]
Introduction An argumentative essay is a type of writing that requires you to investigate a topic; collect, generate, and evaluate evidence; and establish a position on the topic. Argumentative essays are pieces of writing that aim to convince the reader of the writer’s own opinion. In this unit, we read “The Raven” by Edgar Allan […]
We learned from Edgar Allan Poe the beginnings of Narrative Prose or short stories written in the first person. We see the continuation of narrative prose through Alice Walker and still to the present day. Following Alice Walker’s thoughts on writing, create a brief fictional story in the first person. This could be about anything, […]
Edgar Allan Poe. 2 pages, double-spaced, MLA format, and a works cited page Include Four quotes from their work. Select an aspect about this author or their work that you found interesting and would like to analyze in-depth. You can include some biographical information, but this paper should not consist only of biographical information.
Topic: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” Paper details: Paper #3: Comparative Analysis Choose two works by two different writers and write 1200-1500-word a comparative essay. In your essay, you might choose one particular element that connects the two works, for example, a theme, type […]
The Assignment: For this essay, you will conduct an in-depth analysis of one work of fiction that we have read, focusing on how its Gothic elements reveal a deeper meaning or theme in the text. Here are key Gothic elements you can choose from (don’t try to cover all of them; just choose those elements […]
