Gothic Literature and "The Minister's Black Veil"
This is what the term "gothic" was used to refer to before literature?
Architecture
This is what Georgiana's birthmark looked like.
A tiny hand.
This is the poem that made Poe a household name.
"The Raven"
This was at the center of the universe for Transcendentalists.
The individual
Emerson said that he was born a _________.
poet
This term is used to describe the act of speaking with the dead.
Necromancy
This was Aylmer's profession.
Alchemist
This is the main gothic theme around which "The Fall of the House of Usher" revolves.
Ancestral Curse
Name two Transcendentalist authors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman
Emerson was widely sought throughout the country as a ______________.
lecturer
When an author or a character in gothic literature feels shame or cursed because of something their family did in the past, we call this. . .
ancestral curse
This is what Aylmer's dream was about.
He dreams that he is performing surgery on Georgianna's birthmark and realizes it was connected to her heart.
Name two works by Edgar Allan Poe.
"The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Raven," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Fall of the House of Usher"
These are two influential historical figures that adopted the idea of passive resistance from Transcendentalists.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ghandi
Name one work by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Self-Reliance," "Concord Hymn," "Nature"
In "The Minister's Black Veil," what does Reverend Hooper's veil symbolize?
secret sin
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! This is the author of "The Birthmark."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is why/where Poe was traveling when he died.
He was on his way to marry Elmira Royster.
This author began the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! This section of "Concord Hymn" uses what type of figurative language? (there are two types used)
"Spirit that made those heroes dare
To die and leave their children free
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee"
Personification and Apostrophe
This is the author of "The Minister's Black Veil."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is what Aylmer's dream revealed about himself.
That he'd be willing to do just about anything to remove his wife's birthmark--even kill her.
Give two examples of the grotesque from "The Fall of the House of Usher."
Roderick Usher, the House of Usher, Lady Madeline's description at the end
Name at least two cornerstones of Transcendentalist beliefs.
Human senses are limited, nature informs human nature, God, nature, and humans form one soul
According to "Self-Reliance," why is it good to be misunderstood?
Many famous scientists, philosophers, and philanthropists were misunderstood. We should want to be like them.