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    is a mental illness. This causes several changes in your mood, your energy, and also your daily activities or tasks. It can also affect the way you act, think and even your behavior. Unlike a normal mood swing, bipolar disorders mood changes affect so badly that it affects the way you function. There’s the manic episode, which a person will act impulsively but in order for it to be considered a manic episode a person must have an abnormal mood needs to last one week. There’s also the depressive…

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    thought-processes, emphasizing catalysts of mood, legato, diction. Poe establishes the mood within the story’s first moments: moribund, anguished, sightless. With the narrator’s preambulatory statements, the pessimism is divulged, “[sickness] unto death with long agony… [he] felt [his] senses were leaving [him]” (62). This agony expresses the story’s initial shadow of darkness; the reader is grasped by the stormy tendrils of failure. However, Poe’s introduction, of this stormy mood, is…

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    The medium were comparing is a radio play and a book.The book is written by the original author Steve Bradbury.The radio play was written by Michael McDonough .The radio play is like an improved book read to you, but with different voices for each character .The book is what you read . So there are differences in each book keep reading to find out. The plots are being pretty much the same with a little different.The setting for both is a small civilization on Mars.Rising action, the rising…

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    athletes and both authors show the people's feeling through the use of mood and personification. The athletes in the poems by Housman and Updike were one of the best athletes of their time. Their glory remained throughout the duration of their high school careers and both athlete’s town’s people carried them in their times of glory. The residents, “chaired [them] through the market-place” (Housman 2). Housman shows the mood of the civilians by saying they chaired them around. They were so…

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    stories. Another example of similarities in “The Raven” and “The Tell Tale Heart” is the mood, in particular the very dark mood. Poe was known to have a moral of death and darkness in many of his stories. In “The Raven” it says, “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” (Paragraph 5). This text example shows a mood of darkness because not only does the author…

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    Metaphor Theory Summary

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    The Effect of an Individual’s Mood on his or her Weather preferences People have always wondered how the body and mind interacted. Some people believe that they did not interact at all. For example, Plato believed that the mind and the body were two separate entities (University of Richmond Department of Psychology, 2015). However, recently, there is evidence that a person’s body does influence his or her cognition. It is known as Embodied Cognition, which is built off Metaphor theory. Metaphor…

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    The Raven Analysis Essay

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    The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe starts out with an extremely dark mood of grief and sorrow. The setting of the poem is excruciatingly eerie giving the entire reading experience a very creepy and unsettling feel. Poe begins the poem with the lines, “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary” which already gives the poem a very dark and sad feeling (1). This is where the setting begins to unfold and is pictured. He then begins to talk about how he is drifting off and,…

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    in a life or death hunting competition. The setting in all stories set the mood for the rest of the story. The main places in “The Most Dangerous Game” is the ship they traveled on past the island, the mansion Rainsford stayed in, and the jungle that Rainsford and Zaroff hunted in. Each of these places had a different feeling and affected the emotion of the characters, which made up the mood of the story. The more moods a story has, the more emotion and better understanding there is in the…

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    Wow, this story is putting me on the edge of my seat! Of course I'm talking about the Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. In the tell-tale heart, poe demonstrates mastery of suspense and tension, Biden live he provides a dark mood to the story. In the Tell Tale Heart, Poe use great suspense to put the readers of the story on the edge of their seats. Poe uses Three types of suspense in this poem “ The Tell Tale Heart” they are such as describing the character's anxiety or fears, describing…

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    Criticism Period, Postwar Period, and the Twentieth Century. As you can see the came from around the same time periods (WKU Library). In Fahrenheit 451 and “A Worn Path," both convey a theme of love with different types of symbolism, personification, and moods. In Fahrenheit 451 and "A Worn Path", both convey a theme of love with many different types of symbolism. There is symbolism in Fahrenheit 451 by using a “Phoenix” to represent rebirth. The firefighters burn the books to make a new…

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