Gothic Literature Edgar Allan Poe

Which statement best describes how this passage fits the Gothic genre?

Under the raven-dark sky, George gripped the sides of the rowboat. Inches of frigid water sloshed in the bottom of the boat, soaking his numbed feet. He cringed involuntarily as thunder ripped through the night, and he wished for the hundredth — maybe the thousandth — time that he had never opened the letter from his dying uncle.

How would these story elements best be revised to fit the Gothic genre?

Three brothers meet in a small coffee shop to discuss their inheritance from their recently departed grandfather.

Which sentence best describes how poetic devices are used in this excerpt from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?

LVII. I looked to Heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. LVIII. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet.

Which sentence uses both imagery and personification?

Read this passage from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat."

I am almost ashamed to own — yes, even in this felon's cell, I am almost ashamed to own — that the terror and horror with which the animal inspired me, had been heightened by one of the merest chimaeras it would be possible to conceive.

What trait of Gothic literature does this passage have in common with the poem "The Raven" by the same author?

How does Thoreau use rhetoric to support his argument in this passage from "Resistance to Civil Government"?

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Read this excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government":Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience? — in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator?Which statement about Thoreau's style is most accurate?

Read this excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience":It is excellent, we must all allow; yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate.Which statement about Thoreau's style is most accurate?

Read the following passage from the body paragraph in an analysis essay:

Thoreau argues that the best type of government is one that is subordinate to the people. He supports this idea by saying, "Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it."

What is the primary weakness of this passage?

Read the last line of Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing":

Singing with open mouths their strong melodious      songs.

What is one purpose of the alliteration in this poem?