"The Black Cat"
What the narrator's wife believed black cats to be
What is "witches in disguise"?
The word the raven uses to answer the narrator's questions
What is "Nevermore"?
What the stranger symbolizes
What is the Red Death?
Why the narrator wants to kill the old man
What is "he has a strange eye"?
An example of Gothic tone/atmosphere
What is mysterious OR dangerous OR horrifying?
What the narrator told the reader before he began the story
What is "he would die tomorrow and wanted to unburden his soul"?
The point of view in which "The Raven" is written
What is first person?
What Prince Prospero symbolizes
What is wealth and/or prosperity?
The narrator's claim throughout
What is "that he is not crazy"?
___________ or otherwise inexplicable events includes dark forces beyond the protagonist’s control
What is supernatural?
Element of gothic literature being expressed when the narrator feels guilty for cutting out Pluto's eye and resorts to drinking
What is emotional distress?
Poetic element in the line:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondering weak and weary."
What is internal rhyme and/or assonance?
What the colors of the rooms in the castle symbolize
What is "the progression through life toward death"?
The human emotion demonstrated when the narrator thinks he hears the beating heart
What is guilt?
A dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions
What is melodrama?
Element of gothic literature being expressed when the narrator's house burns down after hanging Pluto
What is omens & curses?
Poetic element in the line:
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly their came a tapping."
What is alliteration and/or internal rhyme?
What the ebony clock symbolizes
What is "time running out"?
The main conflict
What is man vs self?
The period in which the Gothic period mixed
What is romantic?
How the narrator transformed
What is "from a loving family man to a angry alcoholic"?
Poetic element in the line:
"And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain."
What is alliteration and/or assonance?
The allegorical lesson
What is "one cannot escape his or her fate or death"?
The theme
What is "guilt can pressure you into doing the right thing"?
When the Gothic Period took place
What is the late 18th to the early 19th century?