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1. Masque of the Red Death
2. Cask of Amontillado
3. The Black Cat |
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1. Rip van Winkle
2. The legend of Sleepy Hollow
3. The Moor's legacy
4. Rose of the Alhambra |
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1. Thanatopsis
2. To a Waterfowl |
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1. Young Goodman Brown
2. Rappacini's Daughter |
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Bartleby
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Written by: Herman MELVILLE
Main Characters: Narrator, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut
Summary: The narrator is a big time lawyer and Bartleby is a scrivener, copyist, who comes and makes his life nuts. It ends with Bartleby not wanting to leave the firm and it ends with Bartleby dying in the prison.
Read the ending of the story |
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Rip Van Winkle
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Written by: Washington IRVING
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Rip Van Winkle – a henpecked husband who loathes 'profitable labor'.
Dame Van Winkle – Rip Van Winkle's cantankerous wife.
Rip Van Winkle Jr.– Rip Van Winkle's son.
Judith Gardenier – Rip Van Winkle's daughter.
Summary: This guy R.V.W, hates work but helps everyone around him. He goes into the forest to avoid his wife and falls asleep for twenty years and is only recognized by his children.
Look up what they speak about nature |
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Young Goodman Brown
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Written by: Nathaniel HAWTHORNE
Main Characters:
- Goodman Brown
- His wife, Faith
- others, but these two main
Summary:
Goodman Brown goes to the forest against what Faith said and he encounters someone with a serpent staff. If you grab the staff it takes the holder to a place in the forest where a ceremony is being held. Goodman takes the staff and he and Faith are the two new members of the forest rite. Brown pleads to heaven and awakes, having lost his faith in humanity |
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Masque of the Red Death
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Written by: Edgar Allan POE
Main Character: Prince Prospero
Summary:
Castle with seven rooms during a plague. Prince Prospero tries locking the gates and invites his friends to come over for a masquerade ball. You know the rest |
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Cask of Amontillado
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Written by: Edgar Allan POE
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Montresor (Killer)
Fortunato (Killed)
Summary: You know, but here's 2 important quotes
1. "I shall not die of a cough"-Fortunato in the catacombs when he keeps coughing
2. "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge." Opening quote |
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The Black Cat
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Written by: Edgar Allan POE
Main Characters: The narrator, his wife, and the cat Pluto
Summary: After he kills the cat once it comes back with a white spot in the shape of the gallows on its chest. Also, it has only one eye. |
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Rappacini's Daughter
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Written by: Nathaniel HAWTHORNE
Main Characters:
Giovanni Guasconti-Narrator
Beatrice- the beautiful daughter of Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini, a scientist working in isolation
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Pretty much, Giovanni falls in love with Beatrice so much that he goes to kiss her against Professor Pietro Baglion's wishes. She is poisonous throughout her body and he becomes poisonous and his attempt at an antidote kills her |
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Written by: Washington IRVING
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Narrator
Ichabod Crane-a lean, lanky and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Brom Bones, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel
Katrina Van Tassel- The daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer, Baltus Van Tassel
Brom Bones-Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy
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Katrina is single, and she wants to get married. Ichabod and Brom are the two main suitors. Ichabad fails to propose one night, and is "killed" by the headless horseman. All that is left of him are his wandering horse, trampled saddle, discarded hat, and a mysterious shattered pumpkin. Katrina marries Brom, who many believe to be the headless horseman himself
VERY IMPORTANT QUOTE, IDK WHY IT WAS ON WIKIPEDIA THOUGH "From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of Sleepy Hollow... A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere" |
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The Moor's legacy
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Written by: Washington IRVING
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Pedro-Protagonist
Pedrillo- Antagonist
Moor- 2 in story, one is helped by Pedro, then he dies. The other helps Pedro find the treasure
Alcalde-Greedy Judge
Summary
Pedro helps a Moor. The moor gives him a box then dies. The box leads Pedro and another Moor to treasure. Wife flaunts riches. Alcalde sees demands they open the tower. Pedrillo, alcalde, and alcalde's single henchman die when the Moor closes the gate |
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Rose of Alhambra
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Written by: Washington IRVING
As that the one with the prince or whatever noble guy that goes into the castle to get the falcon? The girl's forbidden to let anyone in cuz her guardian is like "people are bad and will be the end of you"
He convinces her to let him in and they become secret lovers that met once. He takes a rose from her as a way to remember her. When the kingdom decides to move she hears about it and gets really sad
He come by on his horse to see her one last time and the guardian sees (I think?) then blah blah the king is stricken by an illness and they try to find someone to cure him. Someone's sent to the girl's castle cuz there's a rumor of a magical flute (or other instrument) that has healing powers. She goes to the kingdom with the flute, heals him, meets the boy, everyone's happy |
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To a Waterfowl
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Written by: William Cullen BRYANT
Main Characters: Narrator
READ IN CLASS, REMEMBER
The whole poem encompasses the flight of the waterfowl from two viewpoints. It appears to the poet at dusk as it gently floats overhead and gradually disappears into the horizon. The poet also projects the journey of the bird over vast territories as it flies from its winter abode to its summer home.
EBOOK.COM SUMMARY IS PHENOMENAL |
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Thanatopsis
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Written by: William Cullen BRYANT
Character: Narrator
READ IN CLASS, REMEMBER
Thanatopsis” is a meditative poem of eighty-two lines, granting consolation for human mortality through mankind’s unity with nature. The poem whose title in Greek means “a meditation on death,” was written in William Cullen Bryant’s seventeenth year in shorter form |
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