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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR DISCUSSIONS: Your contributions should be thoughtful and developed. Answer all parts of the question and use concepts from the course materials. Use a professional style of communication, with attention to grammar, spelling, and typos; cite your sources.
Unless your instructor specifies otherwise, choose ONE of the following questions, and give a substantive response to at least two other students.
1. FICTION & FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Choose three of the pieces of fiction in the Learning Resources, identify the use of specific literary language in each, and explain how it expresses one of the character’s feelings or thoughts, functions to convey the mood of a character, or conveys the overall tone or theme of the story.
Make sure to include a specific quote from each piece of fiction and to use one interpretative tool from the Learning Resources or Module introduction that refers to figurative language in your analysis for each (for example, metaphor, simile, hyperbole etc.) in your analysis. Underline or bold any interpretative tools in your post.
2. POETRY & IMAGERY
For each of the three poems in the Learning Resources ("Far Memory," "You,Doc Martin,", "A Bride in the 30s") identify some specific imagery used by the poet and explain how this imagery conveys additional meaning about the subject or creates a unique perspective on the subject through appealing to the senses.
Make sure to include a specific quote or line from each poem and in your analysis, and to use at least one interpretative tool from the Learning Resources or Module introduction in your analysis. Underline or bold any interpretative tools in your post.
3. POETRY & FICTION THEMES
Pick one of the poems or stories from the Learning Resources and identify a key theme of the work. Using interpretative tools from the Learning Resources or Module introduction that refers to figurative language, carefully analyze and interpret your poem or story as an expression of this theme. Choose three specific quotes or lines from the piece of work and show how each exemplifies this theme through its use of literary language.
Make sure to use an interpretative tool that refers to figurative language for each (for example, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, imagery etc.) in your analysis. Underline or bold all of the interpretative tools in your post.
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Poetry and Fiction Themes
This task involves carrying out a thematic analysis of the theme of guilty as evident from
Allen Poe’s poem, The Tell-tell Heart. The reason I was able to identify this theme is the fact
that the narrative has been done from a remorseful point of view; the narrator is attempting to
deal with escaping the perfect offense by getting rid of an old man due to what the narrator
describes as “his evil eye.” When his conscience start haunting him, he makes confession to the
authorities, and this guilt eventually drives him to insanity. In this poem, the narrator chooses his
words in a careful manner in delivering an assessment of mental decline and paranoia. Besides,
the poet curtails the excess information as a ...
