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Vocabulary
The Yellow Wallpaper
Masque of the Red Death
100
This character has a bad reputation, but he or she is not necessarily a bad guy, merely the opposition to the main character.
Who is the Antagonist
100
Who is the Protagonist of The Wasp’s Nest? Why is this person the protagonist?
Hercule Poirot because he is the main character even though other characters are major.
100
This character is the main character.
The protagonist.
100
What happens to our Narrator at the end of the story?
She goes crazy.
100
What is one of Edgar Allan Poe's biggest inspirations?
Death, He was obsessed with it, feared it and was surrounded by it.
200
This is a character who has changed a lot in the story.
What is a dynamic character
200
Who is planning on framing who in The Wasps Nest?
James Harrison is planning on framing Claude Langton because he wants revenge.
200
What is an inciting incident?
It is the conflict of the story that typically gets things started.
200
Why does the narrator and her family go to the vacation home? What is the magic cure?
To help the narrator get better. They use the resting cure to help her get better. However the fresh air and resting cure do not work.
200
Why did Poe struggle with money?
He was a gambler
300
Like Dori in Finding Nemo, this character does not have much of a past.
A Flat Character
300
Who is killed in The Wasps Nest?
The wasps
300
This is a story that people craft that is either real or imagined.
A narrative.
300
What is one thing in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's life that relates to her story?
This could go several different ways. One of which would be that her first husband was somewhat abusive.
300
Why were 1000 guests invited to Prospero's Abbey?
To calm them down and give them something to do during the Red Death. They had been incredibly bored up to that point and were starting to get upset.
400
This character does not change much in the story, he or she stays the same pretty much the whole time.
A static character
400
In Silver Blaze, who murdered the man in the stables?
Silver Blaze
400
This is how the author makes readers feel as they are reading.
What is mood.
400
What is the inciting incident in the Yellow Wallpaper?
She is put in the room and her husband refuses to let her move or take a different room even though it bothers her.
400
What happens to Prospero at the end of the story?
He is killed by the Red Death.
500
What is an exposition?
It is the beginning of the story, where the characters and setting are introduced.
500
What was one piece of inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
His college professor was inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Bullying was inspiration for writing.
500
Explain CAPE Foreshadowing.
Concrete- When you have an object that hints at what is to come. Initially it doesn't seem significant, but it becomes major. Abstract- something that you cannot see, feel, touch that hints at what is to come, like a storm. Prominent- when an author starts a story at the end and then spends the rest of the story explaining how the characters got to the end. Evocative- when an author evokes an emotion using phrases like "If only I had known..."
500
Discuss the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper in terms of Round/Flat, Antagonist/Protagonist, Major/Minor, Static/Dynamic
She is major because without her, there would be no story. She changes a lot throughout the story, which makes her Dynamic. She also provides quite a lot of information about herself in the beginning of the story, making her Round.
500
Who is the antagonist in the Masque of the Red Death?
The Red Death.
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