MARK TWAIN
his real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
His name twain means "TWO".
The reason most of his books are controversial is to give the book more potential and a little bit of disagreement in his stories.
Interesting Facts about Mark Twain is that in 1847 Worked as a printer's apprentice in Hannibal, Missouri, and thereafter began working at his brother Orion's newspaper. Then in 1853 Traveled to St. Louis, New York, and Philadelphia, working as a journeyman printer.
The word Irony is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning an example is when a speaker says one thing but means another, sort of like sarcasm.
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre.
one of his most known book is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
His relation with Mark Twain is that in 1868 HOT AIR Adventure writer Jules Verne published the story "Five Weeks in a Balloon" without knowing that Mark Twain had been working on his own.

GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Prophecy = death, birds omens and evil.
Endrhyme: similar or identical sounds at the end of lines.
Internal rhyme within a line
Rhyme scheme: the basic pattern of the end rhyme.

The Devil and Tom Walker
Boston Massachusetts
Setting: deep inlet, windings through Charels Bay. dark grove, huge trees Massachuttes.
Old stories say pirates kidd buried treasure under the big tree; people say the devil hid the money. kidd never returned to the treasure b/c he was hung for being a pirate.
1727 Tom Walker and his wife, they are miserable together and cheat on each other. she was very secretive. they lived in an old house
"I am the great patron and prompter of slave dealers and the grand master of the salen witches".

The Masque of the Red Death

Allegory, a work with two layer of meaning. Person, object events Possible Meaning, Possible Lessons of story.
At midnight, the 12 strokes of the clock pretty much hypnotices the people. during that time the people noticed a mask was a skull he looked as he was sprinkled with blood like "RED DEATH".
when prince sees him, he shudders of terror distink. the prince orders for him to be unmasked the prince goes up to the nigure + the figure stab the prince with a dager.
the skulled-mask man was RED DEATH he killed everyone who was at the party. the clock stopped working also.
summery: death is bad! you cant cheat death. and the death get in and thats all that matters.

The Singnal Man By Charles Dickens
A spectril is a ghost
singnal - Man who gets siggy from a spector when someone is about to die. the last time he gets hit by the train.

THE RAVEN
the raven is a porphecy. it has been associated with mystery, evil omens and death.
End rhyme-similar or identical saounds at the end of lines ex; last word rhyming
Internal rhyme-rhymes with a line ex;words within, tapping, happing
Rhyme scheme-basic pattern of the end rhymes ex; abc last words and if they rhyme
Stansa- a group of words: like a paragraph

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER(1835)
"unity of the effect = single over all felling".
Strangle and fantastic. Canveying
*psychological terror through carefully chosen detail and events
*Felling and atomouspec.