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Chapter: 40 Book title: ebook

Title of the story :The angel of the Odd

writer: Edgar allan poe

main characters : P= The Angel of the Odd A=narrator

Mood/A= Mood The tone in The Angel of the Odd would be sad, anxious, and a little funny. 

Nature conflict: The nature of the epic precludes its achieving either unity of conception.

main theme: heavy accent

setting: A bar in the narrator's hallucination

story ending: . So he tries to commit suicide a couple of times until the Angel of Odd shows up. At the end the narrator does wake up but in a rather unusual spot.

moral lesson: never bet the devil your head

1.contretemps: An inopportune or embarrassing occurrence or situation.

the contretemps of mankind, and whose business it was to bring about the odd accidents

2.disconsolate: Downcast, dejected, cheerless.

There was a rich widow disconsolate for the loss of her seventh husband,

3.dyspeptic: indigestion or ill humor.

the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item

4.evinced: Displayed clearly; revealed.

 he evinced his sense of my assault by giving me two or three hard consecutive raps

5.filliping: Flicking, striking or tapping with a quick motion.

 I had been filliping about the room during the discourse of the Angel of the Odd

6.harangue: A ranting speech or writing. A lecture.

He concluded a long harangue by taking off his funnel-cap

7.hessian: A German mercenary serving in the British forces during the American Revolution.

those Hessian canteens which resemble a large snuff-box

8.mollified: Appeased. Soothed in temper or disposition.

 The considerate kindness of the Angel mollified me 

9.peregrinations: Travels on foot, long walks.

peregrinations, had been handsomely rebuilt

10.puncheon: A large cask of varying capacity.

the hollow, detestable tones of a rum puncheon, 

Summary:  The "Angel of the Odd" is told by an unknown narrator who tells the story of a chilly 

afternoon in November. The narrator just had a marvelous...