Question

Assessment Instructions
For this assessment you will use your informal reading journal to write two analyses of “The Premature Burial.”

Part A: In a well-developed paragraph analyze Poe’s theme in “The Premature Burial.” Your paragraph should state the theme in one sentence. What specific story elements (plot, setting, characters, or conflict) are essential in developing the theme? Be sure you use specifics from the text that you noted in your reading journal in writing your response.

Part B: In a well-developed paragraph compare Poe’s theme in “The Premature Burial,” to something you’ve experienced, observed, or read about. Be sure to use specifics noted in your reading journal and in your response.

Part C: Complete the guided reading questions you answered about "The Premature Burial" for your reading journal.

Answer 1

@Elsa213

Answer 2

Imma send the poem in the DM e.e

Answer 3

I tink I know wai I didn't do dis assignment now. e.e
Tew long <\3

Lemme see.. e.e
Where es yewr `informal reading journal`?

Answer 4

can i say i dunt know e.e

Answer 5

let me see if its in the lesson cause last i checked it wasnt

Answer 6

Read Poe’s famous story once through for enjoyment. On your second reading, you will need to keep an informal journal.

Answer 7

Yew could just grab a journal and answer du questions given during the story.

Answer 8

yes thats what im thinking imma do

Answer 9

did the link work can u see the questions and poem e.e

Answer 10

Yeyeyeye

Answer 11

Are we supposed to be answering for the paragraph above or below the question? e.e

Answer 12

idk hmmm

Answer 13

Eh.
I'll follow du paragraph above. e.e

Answer 14

ok so the first questions is

Here, Poe describes the sensations of being buried alive. What imagery does Poe use to help you hear, see, smell, and feel? Answer in your journal now.

Answer 15

Okieeeeee

Poe compares the silence to an overwhelming sea. (Hear)

Answer 16

Blackness of absolute night. (See)

Answer 17

`the unseen presence of the Conqueror Worm` (Feel, I think e.e)

Answer 18

dangggg i didnt get a second to even reply e.e u are quick

Answer 19

`The unendurable oppression of the lungs` (Feel)

`the suffocating fumes from the damp earth` (Smell)

Answer 20

Hehe, du answer es in du beginning of paragraph 2. o;

Answer 21

for this first question or the second question

Answer 22

First question.

Answer 23

Answer to second question:

`He is senseless and externally motionless; but the pulsation of the heart is still faintly perceptible; some traces of warmth remain; a slight color lingers within the centre of the cheek; and, upon application of a mirror to the lips, we can detect a torpid, unequal, and irregularaction of the lungs.`

Answer 24

This is the only simile I found for question 3:
`Just as the day dawns to the friendless and houseless beggar who roams the streets throughout the long desolate winter night—just so tardily—just so wearily—just so cheerily came back the light of the Soul to me.`

Answer 25

im back sorry my mom got home and needed help

Answer 26

Welcome home, mum

Answer 27

hehhehe

Answer 28

As the narrator experiences fear, what techniques does Poe use to create suspense for the reader?

Answer 29

Poe creates suspense for the reader by using punctuation because it slows the story down which creates suspense.

Answer 30

^answer to question 4

Answer 31

What is happening to the narrator here? Use evidence from the text to support your answer

Answer 32

Quit checking us out, Ben

Answer 33

yeah stop stalking on us benneh e.e

Answer 34

sorry ;-;

Answer 35

The narrator is terrified "You feel that I shudder.—My teeth chatter as I speak, yet it is not with the chilliness of the night—of the night without end. But this hideousness is insufferable. How can you tranquilly sleep? I cannot rest for the cry of these great agonies"

Answer 36

^hows dis for Q5

Answer 37

hmm lemme look at it

Answer 38

He's being doofed.
I tink der burying him.

Question 5 es asking what is happening to the narrator not how the narrator is feeling.

Answer 39

ohhhhhhhh ok so you think what he is experiencing is he is being buried

Answer 40

I tink so.

Breh
When it was mai time to complete dis assignment, I googled tew find a movie and got a clip garbage. e.e
Better den reading et butt wateva

Answer 41

Wait.....
He's not being buried. <\3 v.v

Answer 42

I think the Narrator is being buried i say this because the author explains how "The chilliness of the night—of the night without end" meaning all he see's is pitched darkness

Answer 43

e.e wait what

Answer 44

okie so he not being buried

Answer 45

is he in a cemetery e.e

Answer 46

After reading the sixth question, I believe he es dreaming. e.e

Answer 47

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

He's talking tew du dead spirit tingeh, I tink. c'x
Becoz et dun have a name and et threw open du graves all around.

Poof
Mystery solved.

Answer 48

so the answer would be

The narrator is i believe is dreaming i say this because he talks to a dead spirit with no name. i feel this is a spirit because it opened all the graves around him.

Answer 49

Breh.
I was looking at the wrong paragraph.
Please end me.

Answer 50

wait what e.e

Answer 51

XD lets go back a step and gather our selves

Answer 52

```
From the images of gloom which thus haunted me in dreams, I select for record but a single vision. I thought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and depth. Suddenly there came an icy hand upon my forehead, and an impatient, gibbering voice whispered the word "Arise!" within my ear.

I sat erect. The darkness was total. I could not see the figure of him who had woken me.

"Arise! did I not bid you arise?"

"And who," I demanded, "are you?"
```

Answer 53

I believe it has the same answer.

He met the spirit of death.

Answer 54

Q1: Here, Poe describes the sensations of being buried alive. What imagery does Poe use to help you hear, see, smell, and feel? Answer in your journal now.

A1: Poe compares the silence to an overwhelming sea. (Hear) Blackness of absolute night. (See) The unendurable oppression of the lungs (Feel) the suffocating fumes from the damp earth (Smell)

Q2: The narrator suffers from catalepsy, a physical condition in which the individual cannot move or speak for hours or, in extreme cases, for months. According to the narrator’s explanation, what are some of the ways that one can tell a cataleptic is still living?

A2: He is senseless and externally motionless; but the pulsation of the heart is still faintly perceptible; some traces of warmth remain; a slight color lingers within the centre of the cheek; and, upon application of a mirror to the lips, we can detect a torpid, unequal, and irregularaction of the lungs.

Q3: What simile does the narrator use describing his return to consciousness? What does the narrator suggest by using this simile and subsequent description?

A3: Just as the day dawns to the friendless and houseless beggar who roams the streets throughout the long desolate winter night—just so tardily—just so wearily—just so cheerily came back the light of the Soul to me.

Q4: As the narrator experiences fear, what techniques does Poe use to create suspense for the reader?

A4: Poe creates suspense for the reader by using punctuation because it slows the story down which creates suspense.

Q5: What is happening to the narrator here? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

A5: The Narrator is experiencing a conversation between him and the spirit of death.

Answer 55

He dreamt he met the spirit of death.

Wai can't dey speak normally? <\3

Answer 56

Dey seem correct. cx

Answer 57

alright next question Finally XD

Answer 58

FUDGE




The answer to question 5:

The narrator is confused and curious about the unseen figure.

The answer to question 6:

The narrator is experiencing a conversation between him and the spirit of death.

Answer 59

How would you describe the narrator’s mental state? Are his actions rational?

Answer 60

The Narrators mental state is very weak "I found myself emerging from total unconsciousness into the first feeble sense of existence"

Answer 61

@Elsa213 hows this look

Answer 62

Weak and terrified. e.e

Answer 63

What techniques does Poe use in the second paragraph to build suspense? What is the effect on you, the reader?

Answer 64

https://prezi.com/nblu3vppej-q/305/
A Sheeted Cheater

Answer 65

Poe uses short sentences to make the suspension even worse. This affects me because it makes me feel worried about the character but also intrigued to see where the story goes.

Answer 66

Based on the descriptions here, what has happened to the narrator?

Answer 67

I believe based on the description's and story i think the narrator is deceased i say this because the narrator has had conversations with death and he explains how "I could no longer doubt that I reposed within a coffin at last. And now, amid all my infinite miseries, came sweetly the cherub Hope—for I thought of my precautions. I writhed, and made exertions to force open the lid: it would not move. I felt my wrists for the bell-rope: it was not to be found."

Answer 68

Yerppp
Gewdie o;

Answer 69

How does changing sentence structure from long to short and choppy help build suspense? What emotions do you feel as you read?

Answer 70

I believe making the sentences short and choppy makes the story build suspense because it makes the reader slow down and pay attention to the story. It also makes me feel the character/Narrator has a short of breath making them sound terrified.

Answer 71

Wat were du emotions yew felt doe?

Were yew scared, sad, surprised?

Answer 72

I believe making the sentences short and choppy makes the story build suspense because it makes the reader slow down and pay attention to the story. It also makes me feel the character/Narrator has a short of breath making them sound terrified. Having the narrator sound terrified made me feel scared but also worried that the narrator was going to die.

Answer 73

What has happened? If you were the narrator, what would you feel hearing these voices?

Answer 74

If i was the Narrator and i was hearing these voices i would have been terrified and would have gone crazy.

Answer 75

The narrator explains how the circumstances of his night aboard the boat paralleled the circumstances of his worst fears. What are the similarities that he experiences?

Answer 76

hmmmmm

Answer 77

@Elsa213 do have any ideas

Answer 78

I think the similarities would be that he had to sleep in a coffin which is similar to being buried.

Answer 79

The narrator undergoes a major change. What did the narrator do in light of his experience on the sailboat? Do you think his reaction is a typical one of someone facing their fears?