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Plot Points - Reverse Jeopardy
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The Vocabulary word writhed means?

What is twisted; contorted?

100

Fill in the blank: I VACILLATED between choosing a pickup or an SUV.

What is couldn't decide between one or the other?

100
This character discovers the secret of life and creates an intelligent but grotesque monster, from whom he recoils in horror.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
100
The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work; may be stated or implied by the author time and time again.
What is theme?
100
Where does Victor Frankenstein meet the two professors Krempe and Waldman?
Ingolstadt.
200

The Vocabulary word is EMACIATED.

What is to cause to become abnormally thin?

200

The condition of OBLIVION.

What is forgotten or overlooked?

200
Intelligent and sensitive, this character attempts to integrate himself into human social patterns, but all who see him shun him.
Who is the monster?
200
A character that changes little over the course of a narrative; he or she is the same person at the end of the story as he was at the beginning.
What is a static character?
200
With what is Robert Walton is obsessed (and why)?
Reaching the North Pole to discover the source of the Earth's magnetic properties.
300

The vocabulary word is FERVENTLY.

What is passionately; earnestly?

300

This vocabulary word is UNBOUNDED.

What is unlimited?

300
This character records this incredible tale in a series of letters addressed to his sister, Margaret Saville, in England.
Who is Robert Walton?
300
A work of imaginative prose that tells a story through letters.
What is an epistolary novel?
300
How does Victor's mother die?
She catches scarlet fever from Elizabeth.
400

The Vocabulary word FORTITUDE

What is Strength to bear misfortune or pain calmly?

400

RETROSPECT 

What is contemplation or survey of the past?

400
This orphan, whom the Frankensteins adopt, is 4 to 5 years younger than Victor. This character embodies the novel’s motif of passive women, as she waits patiently for Victor’s attention.
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
400
A literary and artistic movement of the 18th and 19th centuries that placed value on emotion or imagination over reason, the individual over the group, country over the town, etc.
What is Romanticism?
400
What is does Victor's mother request from Victor on her deathbed?
That Victor and Elizabeth marry.
500

Feeling indignant. anger or scorn.

What is anger or scorn?

500

This vocabulary words means: all succeeding generations.

What is posterity?

500
Victor's boyhood friend, who nurses Victor back to health in Ingolstadt, this character's cheerfulness counters Victor’s moroseness.
Who is Henry Clerval?
500
The climate of feeling in a literary work; the choice of setting, objects, details, images, and words all contribute towards creating a specific feeling or tone.
What is mood?
500
What does the monster think causes Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey to be unhappy?
Poverty.
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