"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe

Read "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe. Think about how Poe uses specific words and phrases to create an effect.

Write an essay that analyzes Poe's language in "The Masque of the Red Death." Include specific examples from the text to support your analysis.

Parla you studied both a video analysis and text analysis of the poem "i hear america singing." consider how the speaker of the poem describes america as "singing. nrite a paragraph discussing the central theme of the poem, drawing information from both the video and the text. cite specific evidence from the video and text to support analysis

Using the library or the internet as a resource, locate and watch two different live production interpretations of act iii of our town. then, compare and contrast how the two interpretations represented the original play. did either of the interpretations make any changes to the original material? if so, how did it affect your experience as a viewer? did you interpret the characters any differently after watching the live productions? why or why not?

Read this excerpt from "the light of gandhi's lamp" by hilary kromberg inglis, in which she describes driving to the police station where her sister is being detained. to avoid looking at the blackened windows at the top of the building and thinking about the history of who had died or been tortured there, i always looked instead at the little chinese restaurant on the opposite side of the road. how does this passage affect the text? it conveys, with great subtlety, the conflict she felt over having a sister who would break the law and end up in the custody of the police. it conveys, without any implied moral judgment, that those who fought against apartheid considered themselves to be soldiers in a just war. it conveys, with an extended metaphor, the idea that being detained by the police in this society was regarded as a badge of honor. it conveys, with direct language, the view held by many anti-apartheid activists that the police often acted in brutal and unlawful ways.