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=**Welcome to our class blog!**=

Your first assignment will be to read an excerpt from a review that Edgar Allan Poe wrote of Nathaniel Hawthorne's //Twice Told Tales//. In this excerpt, Poe attempts to define what a tale is as opposed to an essay or a poem or a novel. He is, in essence, making an argument about what he believes a tale to be. Click on the page "Poe Reviews Hawthorne" (at right) and click on "Edit." Choose a rhetorical device that Poe uses to make his point and highlight it. Then click the button in the tool bar for changing text (4th from the left, a capital T with a paint pallette) change the background color to yellow. //After you've done that, click on the comment button which looks like a speech bubble, then hit "save." Now click on the discussion tab//. You should see your tag. Click on "comment added" and identify the rhetorical device and explain how Poe uses it for overall effect toward his final purpose. Make sure you save your work. **Multiple people may not comment on the same passage**, so the earlier you get on the better choice you will have. You MAY disagree with a previous poster. In this case you would not highlight the text, but would just put in your tag at the bottom and identify the other commenter by his/her tag and post your dissent.


 * The highlighted section is the step I forgot to tell you about in class. Sorry!