According to "Introduction to Dark Romanticism: American Gothic," how do Dark Romantic writers address the theme of nature?
According to "Introduction to Dark Romanticism: American Gothic," how does Poe’s writing distinguish his works from other Romantic authors?
According to "Introduction to Dark Romanticism: American Gothic," why is Hawthorne’s work defined as Dark Romantic writing?
Read this Nathaniel Hawthorne excerpt from "Introduction to Dark Romanticism: American Gothic."When they met in conclave, it was never to keep up the old English mirth, but to hear sermons three hours long, or to proclaim bounties on the heads of wolves . . .What Dark Romantic theme is reflected in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from an essay about the red wolf.The red wolf, a native of the southern United States, is on the brink of extinction. Its status on the critically endangered list suggests a dire circumstance, despite efforts to restore its population. Its threats include hunting, new construction, and death by motor vehicle. But the most pervasive hindrance to the restoration effort is human ambivalence. Few are willing to serve as defenders of the ‘big bad wolf,’ but the red wolf is in dire need of human assistance. People must disregard this misnomer and offer a measure of human kindness and consideration to this graceful creature.How does the author's word choice affect the tone of the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "The Fall of the House of Usher."From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled aghast. The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway. Suddenly there shot along the path a wild light, and I turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could have issued.Which best describes the impact of Poe’s tone in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from an essay about educational technology.With a laptop for every public-school student, eager learners have the world at their fingertips. But will there still be eager learners, or will students be mindless drones heedlessly surfing the Internet on classroom time? Computers are an invaluable research tool, and laptops render content imminently accessible—but accessibility has a downside. When every question posed to a student can be answered by a search engine, what happens to that student’s need to learn? Perhaps it will suffer the same fate as dusty books and desktops, vanishing in antiquity.How does the author's word choice affect the tone of the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "The Fall of the House of Usher."And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into the recesses of his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe, in one unceasing radiation of gloom.How does Poe develop a short story element in the excerpt?
Read this Herman Melville excerpt from "Introduction to Dark Romanticism: American Gothic."[I]n the great Sperm Whale, this high and mighty god-like dignity inherent in the brow is so immensely amplified, that gazing on it, in that full front view, you feel the Deity and the dread powers more forcibly than in beholding any other object in living nature.Which Dark Romantic theme is reflected in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher."The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death. We replaced and screwed down the lid, and, having secured the door of iron, made our way, with toil, into the scarcely less gloomy apartments of the upper portion of the house. Which statement best describes how Poe develops a specific element of American Gothic fiction in the excerpt?
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