Week Seven (2015.4.9) --- Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart
week 6 --- Spring Break
was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. (The victim was an old man with a filmy "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it.) The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the form of the sound—possibly hallucinatory—of the old man's heart still beating under the floorboards.
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2. Symbol: A symbol of something such as an idea is a shape or designs that is used to represent it.
Imagine: If you imagine something, you think about it and your mind forms a picture or idea of it.
the blue and white emblem
3. man-: is the prefix stands for ''hand''
ex. manual: of or done with the hands.
manuscript: a book, document, or piece of music written by hand rather than typed or printed.
manufacture: an industry in which mechanical power and machinery are employed.
manipulate: handle or control (a tool, mechanism, etc.), typically in a skillful manner.
4. film (v.) If you film something, you use a camera to take moving pictures that can be shown on a screen or on television.
accommodate (v.) (living) To accommodate someone means to provide him or her with a place to live or stay.
submission (n.) A submission is a proposal, report, or other document that is formally sent or presented to someone, so that they can consider or decide about it.
5. Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world.
hermetic: made airtight by fusion or sealing. /not affected by outward influence or power; isolated.
roots: -ium , -eum
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auditorium
aquarium
stadium
5. The Monuments Men: is a 2014 American-German war film directed by George Clooney, written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov, and starring Clooney, Matt Damon…
6. foul: an infraction or a violation of the rules of play
7. integrate vs. segregate school
8. competition submission
9. phony: a fraudulent or dishonest person. / something that is not genuine; a fake.
10. Rudyard Kipling - The Way Through the Woods
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True Blood Finding Forrester
- Helena Bonham Carter
A Room with a View
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