Thanatopsis

1. Thanatops and Opsis were two greek words put together to form the word thanatopsis. This word means view of death which contributes to the meaning of the poem because even when we die, we view nature as a place needed to be protected.

2. Shroud-An item used to cover up and protect something.
Pall-A cloth spread over a coffin or a dark cloud
Narrow house-Grave
Sepulchre-A grave or burial place
All of these words impact the meaning of the poem because of the poets main purpose of including the thought of death into his poem.

3. This poem talks a lot more about death, however it could also be about life as well due to the times that it talks about all of the nature and the need to protect it.

4. The tone at the beginning of the poem is of grief, however the tone shifts to a more comforting feeling.

5. An elegy is a poem of serious reflection. The conventions of an elegy is when a poem shifts from grief to comfort, and the poem Thanatopsis does this because of the deep descriptions of nature and death throughout the poem.

6. The decription of nature and all of his surroundings are like a painting. He describes images of water and of air which let's the reader feel as if they are there. The landscape is very natural and even though there is death and sadness you still have nature and the streams in nature which represent the beauty.

7. The poem was historical because it was written in the early 19th century. The reason this is a romantic poem is because the poet reflects on his individual feelings, and focuses on the supernatural and is concerned with dying and creates frightful emotions. Thanatopsis is a Calvinist poem because Bryant was in the Calvinist environment and it was part of the poem and in the poem. 

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Abby and Austin

1. Edwards was a pastor during the Great Awakening. This is the time period when people were reviving their faith. His goal is to persuade the people to be reborn and revive their faith.
2. By "natural men" he means the natural progression of all men and their faith is that they are going to sin no matter what they believe. What differentiates you from everyone else is how you handle it and if you are reborn.
3. Abate means to succumb to the wants of the other party, or make the other party happy.
4. Edwards uses this anaphora to provide structure for his oratory, and to emphasize the existence of these things.
5. The clause rewords the previous statement to emphasize the point he is trying to make. Example: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath.
6. Repeating the word and captures the audience's attention and emphasizes the effect that is being had on the situation.
7. Edwards uses semicolons because his statement was all one thought and he didn't want it separated. He uses "not willingly" to make it clear to the reader that they should take none of these things for granted because they don't have to provide for them, yet they do anyways.
8. He develops the simile by first stating the simile and then describing the object that God's wrath is being compared to (dammed waters). The power of the imagery is capable of putting fear into the listener and making it easier to persuade them. He uses imagery to stress the potential power that God has the ability to bestow upon them.
9. Yes, we notice a progression in the three paragraphs, as the imagery as the imagery gets more severe in each paragraph. The point he is making through the imagery is that at any given moment, God could let go and stop supporting you.
10. Edwards uses pathos in his whole speech, as he attempts to scare the audience into being reborn.
11. Edward's tone in his speech is very fierce and serious about his subject. He constantly addresses the audience in a way that suggests that they are worthless. He constantly states that gods wrath will send you to hell on an instant.after the first page, his tone goes from a convincing tone, to more of an angry tone.
12. The texts meant to be heard are written so that they seem to single people out in the audience. He directs his words straight to the audience and then goes into extreme detail of what god will do to the sinners. "O sinners! Consider the fearful danger you are in." The texts meant to be read are more calm get convince the reader that they are no good. "If God withdrew his hand, nothing would keep you up."
13. Yes, this speech is very persuasive. He constantly is describing God's wrath which puts fear into the audience. Anyone that is fearful of something will believe what they hear about it. A persuasive text to me is a text that without a doubt convinces you to go to the authors side of the argument.
14. I believe that that kind of response came shortly after he directed all of his descriptions of God's wrath directly to the audience. He addressed them as sinners and then told them what God does to sinners.

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The Navajo Legend Questions

1. Descriptive, colorful, bright, they allowed me to understand more clearly what was going on and also allowed me to imagine the scenery and all the actions play out.

4. A.Cleanse the body with seperate colored cornmeal, white for men, yellow for women, wait for the gods to arrive, allow gods to set up the buckskin, and then stand back and watch man and woman he created by the wind.

B. it tells me that they honors their gods by being clean and obeying orders.

5. A. The wind gives life to the man and women.

B. Wind is fast moving and sometimes uncontrolled, yet the ceremony was calm and collected.

Yellow Wallpaper Symbolism

Symbolism is very important in the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The author uses a lot of symbolism throughout the story, as well as some that involves historical context. A few examples of symbolism that he uses is the lady stuck in the wallpaper throughout the story, the room that the narrator is forced to stay in, and John when he treats her like a child.

Throughout the whole context of “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator is constantly looking at the wallpaper in her room and claiming that it is moving. However, one night she sees a lady stuck behind the wallpaper and feels all the urgency to get her out and free her. Seeing the lady stuck behind the wallpaper symbolizes the narrator herself being stuck in the room with no way out. Sometimes the lady in the wallpaper is calm and collected, yet sometimes she shakes and moves which also describes the narrator’s position perfectly. At times the narrator is calm, such as when she is visited by John and Jennie, but at other times when she is alone, she begins to go crazy.

The setting of this short story is a symbol in itself. The room the narrator is forced to stay in is a great symbol of how women felt they were treated in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. They were constantly told what to do, how to live, where to go, and when to do certain things sometimes to a point where they can’t even handle it anymore. This story represents those feelings of mistreated perfectly. Every single day the narrator experiences that feeling of being trapped and not being able to do what she so desires. The room can also be looked at as symbolizing the feeling of being useless. When women were seen as nothing more than a house wife and someone who should not do anything else besides clean, cook and take care of the kids, there were often times of the feeling of being useless. The narrator definitely feels as if she is of no use and never will be unless she breaks out of the room, or “Wallpaper”.

Constantly throughout the story, John calls the narrator childish names, and treat her in a childish manner. He always calls her little girl, or my little darling, and often refers to her room as a nursery. The fact that he does treat her so much like a child, definitely symbolizes how much women truly meant to men in that time period. They were not really seen as wives and as someone you really loved, they were seen as someone that has to listen to you. Treating her like a child can also represent the fact that women must have been crazy to think that they could do whatever they wanted. At the end when the narrator stands up for herself and rips down the wallpaper saying “I’ve got out at last” she is then portrayed as “crazy” where as in our time, it is perfectly fine to be free.

All of these symbols point back to women’s rights back then and how it was seen that they were crazy to think that they had freedom. 

Austin Klutz

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Hello, my name is Austin Klutz. I'm sixteen years old and I have five cats. Weird? Yea... I am a very active person. I am involved in many church activities, sporting events, and school functions. Wrestling is a huge part of my life as well as spending time with my friends and family. I took second in the wrestling state tournament last year and hope to take first this year. I don't mind embarrassing myself in order to make people laugh. I have a hard-working father, and a lazy brother, but love them both. I love inspirational quotes "God gives his toughest battles to his strongest warriors."