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EA Poe.notebook October 27, 2015 The Murders in the Rue Morgue Horror The Pit and the Pendulum Detective Story The Purloined Letter 2
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Poe's Tone through words 4
bomphiologia bomphiliogia is bombastic, pompous speech such as Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its beating. Then a pause in which all is blank. Then again sound, and motion, and touch (The Pit and the Pendulum, NP). 5
enargia enargia is a vivid description of something. 6
chronographia vivid description of events in order. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang; and when the minute hand made a circuit of the face, and the hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a note and emphasis that, at each lapse of an hour (The Masque of the Red Death, NP). 7
Open to p. 625 and look for phrases with: bomphiologia and/or enargia bomphiologia enargia 8
Examples of bomphilogia in literature: I am, quite simply, the greatest and most accomplished narrator you will find in the Northern Hemisphere (I have no interest in the South). You, sir! Come hither. Now look at this sorry chap. Does he not, in his common garb, tell you how inferior his classes are and how superior we are? taken from http://changingminds.org/techniques/language/figures_speech/ bomphiologia.htm 9
In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night. David Copperfield: Chapter I An excerpt from the novel by Charles Dickens' novel taken from http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/samples/dickens.html 10
"I have hesitated some time," continued the commander; "nothing obliged me to show you hospitality. If I chose to separate myself from you, I should have no interest in seeing you again; I could place you upon the deck of this vessel which has served you as a refuge, I could sink beneath the waters, and forget that you had ever existed. Would not that be my right?" "It might be the right of a savage," I answered, "but not that of a civilised man." "Professor," replied the commander, quickly, "I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!" 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, Chapter 10 The Man of the Seas taken from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/164/164 h/164 h.htm#chap10 11
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Bomphilogia Great for... Lousy for... Enargia Great for... Lousy for... 14
Aspects of Horror visceral hits the gut reader along for the ride 15
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For today's Reading: Take your paper, title it, and then do this... Name Date Reading Poe and Media 19
Differences B M E Poe's story Media 1 Media 2 20
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Tell Tale Heart 22
moveforward (5); turnright (90); moveforward (10); turnleft (90); moveforward (4); turnright (90); 23
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