Analyze given excerpts to discern which literary devices are applied.Analyze the author's craft with emphasis on how adjectives enhance the story.Discern the most accurate description of setting.Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly.( Alternatively, Word Document and PDF versions are available here.)īy completing this activity, students will demonstrate an ability to do the following: This narrative has an estimated Lexile Measure of 1200-1300, making it an appropriate addition to a high school short story or fantasy unit, especially at the 11th and 12th grade levels. So the Genie flew back to the thin horned moon, and the Daemon looked intently at a little ape in a tree that grew in a crumbling courtyard.Support the development of close reading skills for high school with this worksheet composed of challenging questions designed to help students analyze a brief, yet complex short story: 'Memory' by H.P. These beings of yesterday were called Man.” Their name I recall clearly, for it rhymed with that of the river. Their aspect I recall dimly, for it was like to that of the little apes in the trees.

Their deeds I recall not, for they were but of the moment. These beings were like the waters of the river Than, not to be understood. Tell me the deeds and aspect and name of them who built these things of stone.” And the Daemon replied, “I am Memory, and am wise in lore of the past, but I too am old. The Genie that haunts the moonbeams spake to the Daemon of the Valley, saying, “I am old, and forget much. From hidden springs it rises, and to subterranean grottoes it flows, so that the Daemon of the Valley knows not why its waters are red, nor whither they are bound.

For all time did their builders erect them, and in sooth they yet serve nobly, for beneath them the grey toad makes his habitation.Īt the very bottom of the valley lies the river Than, whose waters are slimy and filled with weeds. Vast are the stones which sleep beneath coverlets of dank moss, and mighty were the walls from which they fell. And in trees that grow gigantic in crumbling courtyards leap little apes, while in and out of deep treasure-vaults writhe poison serpents and scaly things without a name. Rank is the herbage on each slope, where evil vines and creeping plants crawl amidst the stones of ruined palaces, twining tightly about broken columns and strange monoliths, and heaving up marble pavements laid by forgotten hands. And within the depths of the valley, where the light reaches not, move forms not meet to be beheld. The making process: 'In the valley of Nis the accursed waning moon shines thinly, tearing a path for its light with feeble horns through the lethal foliage of a great upas-tree. For realising it I downloaded and merged several free textures from, and post-processed.

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