Tropes
This type of building, often dark, decaying, and isolated, is a classic setting in Gothic stories.
What is a castle/mansion?
In “A Poison Tree”, the speaker tells his friend about his anger.
How does he feel when he openly expresses it?
What is relieved?
You will be given a word.
Please spell it correctly.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
This technique speaks directly to the audience, often using words like “you” or “we.”
What is direct address?
Maui (Maori myth) was responsible for the discovery/creation of this thing.
What is New Zealand's northern island?
These natural phenomena—like storms, fog, or thunder—are often used to reflect characters’ emotions or foreshadow events.
What is pathetic fallacy?
Both 'a Poison Tree' and 'The Sick Rose' poems explore how suppressed emotions or secrets can cause harm.
What emotion specifically grows stronger when it is hidden in “A Poison Tree”?
What is anger/wrath?
Write a sentence including triples, personification, comma sandwich and about an elephant.
For example:
The enormous, gentle and wise elephant, who whispered secrets to the wind, trumpeted loudly across the rain-forest.
These are objectively true.
What are facts?
Good/Evil and Joy/Sadness are this thing.
What is an antonym?
A character who is innocent, vulnerable, and often threatened by the villain or environment is called this.
What is a damsel-in-distress?
In “A Poison Tree”, the speaker’s anger grows until it produces something deadly.
What object symbolises this anger’s result?
What is an apple?
List all language methods.
You shiver as the wind lashes the crumbling tower like a whip, filling me with fear, dread and despair, a darkness thicker than ink, making me want to scream until the world breaks.
Metaphor: “darkness thicker than ink”
Simile: “like a whip”
Direct address: “You shiver”
Emotive language: “filling me with fear”
Triples: “fear, dread, and despair”
Hyperbole: “scream until the world breaks”
DOUBLE POINTS! (MUST LIST ALL)
Words designed to evoke feelings.
What is emotive language?
They're/There/Their are all this thing.
What is a homonym?
*Sound the same but have different meanings.
This trope involves the inexplicable to create fear and suspense
What is the supernatural?
The speaker in “A Poison Tree” feels a sense of pleasure when his enemy is harmed.
This emotion is linked to this darker human tendency.
What is revenge/malice?
Why is pathetic fallacy used in Macbeth Act 1 Scene 1?
The stormy, unsettled weather mirrors the witches themselves and suggests that nature itself is disturbed by their presence, linking to the theme of disorder in the world.
The answers are implied.
What are rhetorical questions?
What does 'dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' mean?
DOUBLE POINTS!
What is a reverie?
A daydream - when someone is lost in their thoughts and not paying attention to the real world.
Both poems use nature to express Gothic ideas of innocence destroyed and hidden evil.
What literary technique is this — when physical objects represent abstract ideas or emotions?
What is symbolism?
DOUBLE POINTS!
You will be given a word.
Please spell it correctly.
Disestablishmentarianism
Using a few words, phrases or ideas together for emphasis.
What are triples (rule of three)?
How much was Muse offered by Captain Phillips in an attempt to persuade the pirates to leave the ship?
What is $30,000?