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Name author + synoniems
Name: edgar allan poe
master of the macabre
the master of suspense
the father of detective story
tomahak man (he wrote harsh revieuws)
why was adgar allan poe famouse
his eerie and imaginative tales → groundwork modern detetcive stories
how was his family situation
Family situation: father abandoned the family + mother died of turbeculosis → raised by foster → cut ties with him
what was his encomics situation (or smth)
Economicly: struggeled →had to leave uni ( university of virginaia + wrestpoint) → full time job as writer
whow was his love life
Love: married his cousin virginia in 1839 → died in 1847 → sad: NEVER MORE GOT MADE
when + theories of his death
Died: 1849 in baltimore
alcohlism to medical conditions but thats just a theory a litterary theory.
a line
verse
group of lines
stanza
repeating rhytmic unit that forms part of a line
foot
basic rhythmic structure of a line
a meter
the first stanza explain pls
stressel sulabble follewed by an unstressed sullable → a trochee (repeated 8 times) → thochaaic octametre
mood poem
Dark and eerie: gothic imagery (midnight december), narrator descents in depsair, pauses. + repititions of NEVERMOREEE
narrator poem
mourning the loss of lis love lenore, he was sitting in his room reading a book as a distraction
raven peom
death and espair + permanant grief. Ravens are associated with death of the supernatual in varius mythologies.
NEVERMORE POEM
the realistation that his hopes of seeing lenore again of escaping his sorrow are futile.
metaphor
comparison without like or as
the raven who represents the narratos grief / lonliness
allusion
reference to another person or another litteray work
pallas: godess of wisdom
simile
comparion with like or as
suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping,
juxtaposition
putting contrasting things next to eahother
the raving htat is sitting on the pallas
personification
making objects of animals seem human
the raven speaks
onomatopoeia
words that sound like what they describe
tapping
refrain
a phrase or sentence that is regulary repeated
NEVERMORE
hyperbole
exagerration
all my soul within me burning
assonance
repeating vowel sounds
one upon a midnight dreary while i ponder weak and weary
alliteration
repeating constants at te beginning of the words
i nodded nearly napping
irony
saying the opposite of what you mean
anaphore
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginnign of several sentences or clauses
let my heart be,…
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