"the raven": dictionary: while i nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. –"the raven," edgar allan poe based on the context of the word rapping in the stanza and the definition of rap, what image is the poem creating?

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

"ten from the sea to the sand he walks, to look in the soil, but not in the box''!

What exaggeration about him smiley does the narrator of the notorious jumping frog of calveras county make