He approaches the plate,

ponderous,

swinging smoothly

in slow motion

knowing his choice is simple:

swing or not.

As he paws

the back line of the batter’s box,

matching concentration and stare

with the pitcher,

he knows

indecision

or

hesitation

makes failure likely.

Pitcher rocks.

Batter waits.

Then, in the time it takes

a happy heart to beat,

decides.

I got this poem from: http://home.earthlink.net/~sscutchen/baseball/Poetry/index.htm

I got this picture from: http://misunderestimation.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/Bagwell_Jeff_45.jpg

 S- A baseball batter that is about to hit

O- A baseball game and a batter is up to hit

A- Baseball fans and players

P- To describe the pressure that a batter feels when he is up to bat

S- A baseball player or the poet

TONE- Nervous

Literary Devices

Personification- “Happy heart’(19).

Metaphor- “as he paws/the back line of the batters box,”(7-8).

“The Batter” has no rhyme but the way it is written creates a rythem that you can hear.

     Montresor was very deceptive. He begins to tell Fortunato about this Amontillado that he bought and how he wasn’t sure if it was real. He says that he is going to bring it to someone else to check if it was real but Fortunato wanted to help. Montresor was able to get Fortunato to go with him to his cellar were there wasn’t even any Amontillado. He knew that Fortunato loved wine and knew wine well, and would want to help. He used his deception to get Fortunato to follow him all the way to the niche were he finally killed him.

     Montresor was cruel to Fortunato. Montresor lead Fortunato to a niche in his cellar, where there was suppose to be Amontillado but there wasn’t. When Fortunato was in the niche Montresor chained him to the wall and began to cover the opening with bricks. When Montresor finished covering the wall Fortunato suffocated and died. Montresor used his cruelty to kill Fortunato in a horrible way.

     Montresor was Ironic and used a lot of Irony when he spoke.’ I drink to your long life.’ He said this to Fortunato when he already knew that he was going to kill him. He was using sayings like this to keep him from suspecting anything. Montresor used irony to help mislead Fortunato to kill him.

    Montresor is deceptive, cruel, and ironic. he used all of these traits to kill Fortunato. Without deception Fortunato would have never fallowed him to his cellar while being sick. The irony that Montresor used helped lead Fortunato along without suspecting anything. Montresor used his cruelty to kill Fortunato in the worst way he could think of.

Ares is the god of war and his name is often used to represent “destroyer” and “avenger”. He is the son of Zeus and is despised by most gods; Even Zeus disliked him. He is bloody, merciless, fearful, but mostly cowardly. he was huge, had a booming voice, and is faster than all the other gods. Aphrodite became his wife and he had Harmonica, Penthesilea, and Hippolyte. Not many Greeks worshipped him or built temples in his honor.

I got this information at: http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/greek/articles.html

I got this picture at: http://www.paleothea.com/Gallery/AresDD.html

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