Read the first stanza from "the raven." once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore– while i nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'tis some visitor," i muttered, "tapping at my chamber door– only this and nothing more."

which best describes the scene that the author is setting through the use of imagery in the stanza?
1.the speaker is up late at night reading and hears a knocking sound.
2. the speaker is sleeping and is awakened by someone calling to him.
3.the speaker is reading a ghost story and imagines that he sees a ghost.
4.the speaker is napping and does not hear a visitor who taps on the door.

The wife of bath was considered to be .. beautiful, of high moral standing or worldly

Expand the outline you wrote in lesson 1 about the american dream into an argumentative research essay. as in most essays, you'll need to include an introduction, body, and conclusion. you'll also need to support your claim with evidence

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.