GOTHIC & PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION
This Gothic concept explains how physical spaces like houses represent the mental states of characters.
What is architecture as a psychological metaphor?
This poetic term refers to the author’s attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
This literary form uses an entire narrative to represent political systems, ideas, or historical events.
What is allegory?
This Keystone skill asks readers to identify the author’s main message.
What is determining the central idea?
This single repeated word functions as a motif representing obsession and despair.
What is “Nevermore”?
In Gothic literature, the repeated decay of houses, families, or minds most often symbolizes this internal process.
What is mental deterioration?
This sound device places rhyming words within the same line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
In Animal Farm, this group manipulates language to maintain control over others.
Who are the pigs?
This process combines textual evidence with logical reasoning.
What is inference?
The narrator of Beware! Do not Read this Poem's warnings create tension by placing responsibility on this participant.
Who is the reader?
This text uses an extended metaphor in which a decaying house mirrors both the physical and psychological collapse of its inhabitants.
What is The Fall of the House of Usher?
In “The Raven,” this single repeated word becomes a motif that fuels obsession.
What is “Nevermore”?
This character uses fear appeals and selective truth to persuade the animals.
Who is Squealer?
This literary device occurs when readers know more than the characters do.
What is dramatic irony?
The speaker’s inability to escape his grief demonstrates this psychological state.
What is fixation or obsession?
This literary technique builds dread in Usher through long, complex sentences and dark descriptive language.
What is atmosphere created through syntax and gloomy imagery?
This poetic meter in “The Raven,” combined with repetition, creates a hypnotic, obsessive rhythm.
What is trochaic meter?
This technique helps propaganda succeed by repeating distorted information until it feels true.
What is repetition paired with distortion?
This term describes a repeated image or idea that reinforces theme.
What is a motif?
This sound device reinforces the poem’s mood by echoing grief and dread within lines.
Question: What is internal rhyme?
This recurring condition in Gothic fiction often accelerates emotional instability and psychological decline.
What is isolation?
This literary technique compares two unlike things across many lines or an entire text.
What is an extended metaphor?
Unlike Animal Farm, this poem presents belief as personal identity rather than political critique.
What is Credo?
This contradiction reveals a deeper truth rather than a logical error.
What is a paradox?
Beware! Do not Read This Poem's experimental form reinforces this theme.
What is the danger of ignoring meaning or consuming media without thought?