Allegories
Summary
Figurative Language/ Mood/ Themes
100
Optimistic and carefree persona.
What is Berenice's character?
100
The main character/narrator of the short story.
Who is Egaeus?
100
Ancient, Renaissance, and Classical literary works, such as Tertullian’s “De Carne Christi"
What is the use of allusions?
200
Pessimistic and reserved persona.
What is Egaeus' character?
200
This character is suffering from an illness.
Who is Berenice?
200
Comparison of rainbows and misery.
What is the use of metaphors and similes?
300
This represents the human mind's destructive ability.
What is Egaeus' mind?
300
This happened to Berenice after she collapsed from an epileptic episodes that was followed by one of her trance states.
What is buried alive?
300
This technigue is used to highlight Egaeus' scholarly character.
What is Poe's use of other languages?
400
Perfection and purity.
What is the meaning of Berenice's teeth?
400
The engagement/set to be marriage between Egaeus and Berenice.
What is a pity marriage?
400
Denial or refusal of reality leads to delusion.
What is the theme of irony?
500
Having this object will make Egaeus feel whole again in his ideas which lacked perfection.
What is the reason Egaeus wants Berenice's teeth?
500
Egaeus finds this after Berenice is assumed to be dead.
What is teeth?
500
Egaeus provides explanations and justification for all of his action
What is the rational/scientific mood?
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