Setting
Robert Walton's location when he writes letters to his sister
The Arctic Ocean
The letter writer/initial narrator's primary goal in exploring the Arctic is ______________________.
to find a northern passage and gain scientific knowledge
The Arctic explorer and sea captain who narrates the opening and closing parts of the novel
Robert Walton
The year Frankenstein was published
1818
The subtitle of the novel, Or, The Modern Prometheus, represents this literary element.
An allusion
The country in which Margaret Saville lives
England
This character dies from scarlet fever.
Victor Frankenstein's mother
The name of the letter writer's sister
Margaret Saville
Mary Shelley's mother
Mary Wollenstonecraft
Frankenstein is a __________________narrative, containing a story within a story.
frame narrative
The city in which Victor Frankenstein spends most of his childhood
Geneva, Switzerland
The letter writer/narrator first encounters Victor Frankenstein when _________________________.
he (Robert) rescues him (Victor) from the ice when he (Victor) is travelling on a dog sled
The brilliant but flawed young scientist who narrates most of the novel
Victor Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's husband
The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
This passage reveals the ________________ point of view in the narrative.
"I am birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic" (23).
first-person point of view
The university where Victor Frankenstein studies
The University of Ingolstadt
After two years of study, Victor Frankenstein became capable of bestowing a______________upon lifeless matter.
animation
Victor Frankenstein's kind-hearted and gentle cousin
Elizabeth
______________________ prompted the writing of Frankenstein.
A ghost story contest
The passage below demonstrates this rhetorical choice.
"As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak, which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump" (29).
Imagery
The type of house where Victor Frankenstein accesses bones and body parts for his science experiments
Charnel house
The letter writer/initial narrator states that he failed in this role.
Poet
One of the outdated scientists whom Victor had been studying
Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, or Paracelsus
These years represent the Romantic period in British literary history.
1785-1832
Located on the inside cover page of the novel, the quotation below represents this literary device.
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me? --
Paradise Lost
An epigraph