Read the following lines from "the raven":
once upon a midnight *dreary*, while pondering, *weak* and *weary*, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten
while i nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "is some visitor," i muttered. "tapping at my chamber only this, and nothing more."
ah, distinctly i remember it was in the *bleak* december, and each separate *dying* ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

what mood do the italicizes words create?

a. anger
b. anxiousness
c. despair
d. restlessness

But one hundred years later, the negro still is not free. one hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still languishing in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. so we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. in paragraph 3, which rhetorical technique is being used to add emphasis? a) overstatement b) understatement c) parallel structure d) rhetorical question

Exit "families were being further torn asunder, and those left behind knew no more about their own fate than they did of the loved ones moving on." this passage from the text best represents which of the following literary devices used by the author? a. the motif of racial prejudice b. the dramatic irony of the audience knowing more than the characters c. the motif of displacement and separation d. the theme of conflict between those leaving and those being left behind

What’s the importance of gaining a general understanding of and interpretation of the work of literature.