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I always get C's on my essays... my teacher says that I am just retarded in the proofreading field.

suki: i know. the only thing you can really do is cite the idea and summarize it in your own words. it gets frustrating, but it beats an F.

rein: my boyfriend has a similar problem. he's a strong writer, but his grammar isn't up to par. that boy just loves unnecessary commas. XD

see, i'm the opposite. i can write a five page paper in twenty minutes, but i will never understand math or science.

oh, and i suck at french. XD i took two years of it in high school, and i barely remember anything. were you raised to speak french as a first language? because i understand how english could be extremely hard for you. everything's kinda backwards in comparison. =/

and if you ever need help, i'm always here, hon.

no, french is my second language, but I live in Canada so you get taught it at grade 4- grade 10 and on
also my dad is french (my stepdad) and my mere (grandma I know that mere is mom but thats what we called her) only spoke french, so I learned it. I used to tutor people xD

when I am done this horrid essay, I have one on like myths and frankenstein xD
and a scientific essay on genome projects, which is different from a normal essay >.<

the second english essay has to be 6 pages, and same with the scientific essay,

then I have to write a page of quotes

and this is all due monday,
hense why I am not sleeping right now -nods-

yah I will probably take a nap in about an hour and wake up again at like 4am or so <.< and then get back to work >.<

it also sucks because I have been sick all holiday break I just got better a day ago...

how does this sound for after where the quote was,

Even in the beginning of the story, the narrator discusses while in his last 24 hours of life how his previous events in life had impact in a spooky and negative way. That would be an example of an omen (a recal of something horrible) of the past. The quote also ehints that the man is about to tell a story that had the element of evil which is another term that could represent the Gothic element that Poe's stories have.

hm.. that wouldn't neccesarily be considered an omen. and omen is techincally defined as "a phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil; a prophetic sign" according to dictionary.com. this means that instead of him saying that this is going to happen, something would happen in the story, like the darkening of the skies, etc. his telling of the horrors of what he about to tell is more of foreboding ("to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand;"), or foreshadowing ("the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand,").

also,
"Even in the beginning of the story, the narrator discusses how the previous events in his life had an impact in a spooky and negative way. He does this while in his last 24 hours of life. This would be an example of an omen (a recalling of something horrible) of the past. The quote also hints that the man is about to tell a story that has an element of evil, which is another term that could represent the gothic element that Poe's stories often have."

i spellchecked it for you. X3 i didn't highlight it this time, as it takes way too long to do. sorry. i can go back and do it if you like.

right. i haven't read the story in a long time, but i believe he's just narrating the events, yes? well, if he's simply narrating them, it's not an omen. if he were to say, have a vision or dream about the events, and poe writes about him having these, rather than the main character narrating, that would be an omen. does that even make sense? x_X also, an omen is a preliminary vision. if the man is talking about the events after they have already happened, he would more than likely just be foreboding the events to the reader.

if there are such occurrences in the story as he tells it, those would be omens. like, if he tells the reader while telling the story that he had a vision about the coming events before they happened. or if something happened before the events took place that could be considered some sort of higher power warning the man.

no no, foreshadowing is still a very popular literary term, not neccesarilly for just poetry. it is used in almost every literary work. i would suggest going over the story once more and looking for cases of actual omens, but you can still use foreboding or foreshadowing. they are still used in gothic works. many gothic writers depend on them in the beginning of their stories. they set a mood.