What's the word?
When I stayed with my grandparents, it took a while to get used to their _____.
eccentricities
"Before I come on board your vessel, will you have the kindness to inform me whither you are bound?"
Victor
What natural phenomenon influenced Victor?
lightning
What kind of poem is long, serious, and usually address its subject in a calm manner?
Name all the allusions in Frankenstein
1. Paradise Lost
2. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
3. The Bible
4. Prometheus
After emerging from his winter-long ___, the grizzly bear went searching for food.
torpor
"I confess to you my friend that I love you and that in my airy dreams of futurity you have been my constant friend and companion"
Elizabeth
What happens to the creature at the end of the book?
He floats away on an ice raft.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" is written in what kind of meter?
Iambic pentameter
Name all the characteristics of the Gothic nove
(4)
1. use of intense emotion
2. evocation of fear
3. nature has power to destroy
4. use of specific vocabulary
Because of your ___ in getting ready, we ended up being late and missing the movie previews!
indolence
"It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being; all the events of that period appear confused and distinct. A strange multiplicities of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at the same time. "
The creature
How did the creature learn to read and speak?
by listening to the DeLaceys talking and reading
“O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” is what kind of literary device?
apostrophe
What were the 5 I's of the Romantic Era?
2. Individuality
3. Intuition
4. Inspiration
5. Imagination
ephemeral
"I had rather be with you in your solitary rambles, rather than with these Scotch people whom I do not know; hasten thee, my dear friend, to return"
Henry Clerval
Why does Victor give up making a mate for the creature?
He is worried the female will not want to leave with the creature.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
anaphora
What is the theme for Ode to to a Grecian Urn?
Beauty is timeless and transcedent
The government is working around the clock to ___ poverty.
eradicate
"But it is not duty to the survivors, that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness of immoderate grief?"
Alphonse Frankenstein
What is Felix's reaction to seeing the monster?
He beats him and believes the creature is there to attack them.
"I went out and
lost my way
I regret
I could not stay"
enjambment
How is Victor like Prometheus?
He is punished for the sin of his creation.