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These stanzas from the �the Rime of the Ancient Mariner� show the Mariner�s changing attitude toward the creatures of the sea. What is the Marine�s attitude in the first stanza? What image reveals this attitude?
The image �thousand, thousand slimy things� reveals the narrator�s tone of disgust toward the see creatures. The connotation of the �slimy things� suggests slugs, snails, and monsters that frighten or appall, thus creating a clear attitude of disgust.
What is the Mariner�s attitude in the second stanza? Analyze the imagery that reveals this change.
The narrator�s tone turns from disgust to fascination and awe as he watched the sea creatures more carefully. Images such as �rich attire� their colors of �blue, glossy green, and velvet black� suggest that the sea creatures are majestic, and beautiful. The motion of the creatures , which �coil and [swim]� with �flash[es] of golden fire� fascinate the narrator and fill him with a sense of awe.
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The black dog looked right through me with it wild and furious eyes. Its black coat speckled with spots of brown, its teeth were showing as a low rumble exploded out of its throat. The sun shown on the back of its head making it seam as though it was glowing. It legs were moving now every muscle rippled in a sense of majestic yet fearful beauty.
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Read the passage. How does Hujuelos create the auditory imagery of drumming? In other words, how do the words imitate the sounds they represent?
He uses different words in different order to create a feel pf rhythm
Hujuelos repeats the word then eight times in the passage. What does this repetition contribute to the auditory image of the drumming?
He is making it seem as though it is a song that is being played over and over again.
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The crazy moms yelling, the sound of feet against the cold metal bleachers makes a sense of chaos
The loud crack of brain cells being lost. You can hear the plastic bend and break under the pressure of knowledge of the person under the helmet.
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Although the narrator �looks into the distance,� the images are primarily auditory. What are the auditory images in the passage? What mood do these images create?
It makes the reader fell like it is distant and far away and yet close enough to hear.
The last sentence of this passage contains an olfactory image (the musky odor of pinks full the air). What effect does the use of an olfactory image, after the series of auditory images, have on the reader?
It changes because the sound the narrator is trying to create it that of being far away. When he says this you are snapped back into something close.
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What feelings do you associate with images of dusty mountains and dry
earth?
It makes the reader feel as though nothing is there. There is no one or nothing to see or hear. It is obvious that the narrator is trying to make us feel alone.
These are two images associated with land in the third sentence. Identify the two images and�compare and contrast the feelings these images evoke.
When they say �seeped back into the ground� makes it seem as though the earth is losing in its fight to retain life and needs something else to succeed. �through the stone� makes us remember that the earth is nothing but stone and has no remorse for what it has done to us.
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The rain falls in big bold drops that land on leaves and drip onto little kids tongues
The rain falls in huge drops, exploding on the leaves and dropping to the ground. They seep into the earth and create such terror as the earth begins to slid into the houses below.
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Paraphrase the image of the first two lines. What mood does the image create?
Elegant like there are people playing music as a beautiful girl plays with her hair.
List the auditory images in these lines. How do these images help create the mood of the passage?
Whisper, whistled, bells, singing, it makes it feel like the narrator is trying to make us listen to this like a song.
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher...I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled luster by the dwelling...(with) vacant and eye-like windows.
Diction
Diction such as Oppressively, heavens, and melancholy offers the connotation of a deep long lasting sense of sadness. These examples reinforce the tone because it makes the reader feel as though the narrator is trying to convey a feeling of eerie and supernstural power.
Details
Details such as �I had been passing alone, on horseback� and �clouds hung low� make a feeling of sadness and loneliness. The narrator uses words word�s such as �alone� and �hung low� these things make a feeling of sadness and that brings the reader to the level of the character. It foreshadows what is next to come.
Imagery
The images all suggest darkness and loneliness. Mostly visual images, these examples also convey a feeling of oppressive weight as the narrator makes his way to the house. Images such as �shades of evening� can also be an allusion to ghosts or death, and the �vacant and eye-like windows� of the house suggest an eerie presence of supernatural danger.