Mark Twain

The name Mark Twain means mark number two.
His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
His books are controversial because he uses a lot of ironic languages.
Some interesting things about him, American writer, Journalist, Humorist, won a worldwide audience.
Irony means the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of it literal meaning. example, how nice when I said I had to work all weekend.

Jules Verne was a french author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He wrote " the journey to the center of the earth, from the earth to the moon, around the world in eight days" His connection with Twain is he also use ironic languages in his writings.

Extra Credit

2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag and expose the money-lender as a cheat.

The Fall of The House of Usher

Was a Gothic story about Philip who went to the house of Usher to see Madeline (Usher's sister). The house was a very scary place which is far away from where Mr Philip is. he went to the house but Mr Usher doesn't want him to stay because he said there family tree can never produce branches, but Philip insisted. Usher bury Madeline alive when she seems to be death, and Usher could not allow Philip to touch her and he put her into the coffin which has her name on it, But later on Philip realize that she is not death and such for her but could not find her, at the end Roderick (Usher) also die and the house fall. The story is a fantastic and psychological terror, use of figurative languages.

The Raven Reputation

The story is about a bird of prophesy, it is in a kind of poem because and in a stanza with rhyming word the bird in the story are associated with mystery evil, omens, and death. prophesying about the future, saying the same answer to every question. There are three types of rhyme
End Rhyme Similar or Identical sound at the end of stories.
Internal Rhyme rhyme within a line.
Rhyme Scheme the basis pattern of the end rhyme.
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Danse Macabre

Is a story that has a lot of allegory( a work with two layers of meaning) meaning most of the persons, object, and events stand for abstract qualities or ideas. for example in the story there is a place that talk about seven room with different colors represents stages of death. and the clock represent the time for the death to occur or to come. The lesson from the story is death will get one wherever the person may be or what he has.

The Devil and Tom Walker

Is story a man called Tom , of how he get his riches from the evil spirit because of his miserly, Tom got his riches with is encounter with the black men who claimed that he is, the black man told him of how to get rich but he was not interested, but his wife went out after they had an argument, and she did not come back, but Tom did not look for her immediately until after some few days but he only found her heart in the forest which signifies that she is death but that did not bother him. Tom become rich by the evil spirit after a short time, He build house for himself which he could not finished the whole house and couldn't fed his horses. Finally tom died with his empty riches.

GOTHIC LITRETURE

Definition: Gothic literature is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance, it is also referred to as Gothic Horror.
Gothic literature has the following characteristic:
1. Grotesque Character which describe unusual situation, and unusual places.
2. Bizarre Situation which is just the horror and terror in a piece of writing, it is usually scary, and in dark places, or talk of some evil spirit.
3. Violent Event are event that are violent such as killing, hurting people without any specific reason.

Romantic writers are those who write about the emotional feeling, romanticism is one the elements of human nature, the other been imagination.
The splendors of natural inspired the romantics more than the fear of God and some of them felt fascination with the supernatural. the notable writers of romanticism are
Henry Wadswork
Washington Irving
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalism is the quality of being transcendental.
Gothic architecture are covernous Gothic cathedrals, those carving of small deformed creatures such as demonic spirits.
Example of Gothic include
The House of Usher, which talked about Roderick, the visitor and Madeline, how Madeline and Roderick died, it is Gothic because the house is far away from everybody with scary things happening.
The Raven Reputation.
The story of Tom and his wife.