The Raven
This is the speaker's initial reaction upon conversing with the Raven.
What is amusement/thinking the bird was repeating a phrase learned by his master?
A place/ setting where Gothic literature usually takes place.
What is a decaying mansion, an old castle, or a structure once grand that is in decay, or dark, gloomy settings?
This is why the narrator goes to the Usher estate.
What is his childhood friend, Roderick, invites him?
The narrator describes Tom Walker as this.
What is Greedy/Stingy/Miserly?
The black veil that Mr. Hooper wears instantly has this effect on his preaching.
What are the people are focused and intently listening?
Readers can infer this from the poem's conclusion.
What is the speaker will never escape his grief?
This is a story in which a character makes a deal with the devil.
What is a Faustian Legend?
You can infer this about Roderick based on his actions throughout this story.
What is he is manic/obsessed/paranoid?
"The Devil & Tom Walker" is this type of story.
What is a Faustian Legend?
The townspeople are scared to ask Rev Hooper about the veil because of this reason.
What is they are afraid of what his answer will be?
This was Poe's inspiration for creating "Lenore" in the poem.
Who is his dying wife, Virginia?
Men in Gothic Fiction are usually _________.
What is insane or driven insane?
The suspense of the story is generally focused around this character.
Who is Madeline Usher?
The names on the trees symbolize this.
Who are people who made a deal with the devil?
The black veil symbolizes this.
What is secret sin?
"Is there- IS there balm in Gilead?" is an example of this.
What is an allusion?
The women in Gothic literature are typically portrayed as this.
Who are damsels in distress/dead or dying?
This story is written by ___________.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
Irving uses this to symbolize hypocrisy and hidden evil.
What are the trees flourishing on the outside but rotten on the core inside?
Mr Hooper puts on the veil to show his congregation that everyone ________.
What is wears a black veil?
The most likely reason Poe sets his poem "in the bleak December,"
What is to contrast the narrator's sadness with the normally cheerful holiday period?
Gothic literature was created in response to this literary movement.
What are the Romantics?
This happens to the house at the end, proving that it is somehow connected to the Usher family & "living."
What is it collapses and crumbles as the Usher twins die?
This is an element that Washington Irving added to the story about "his time" not the actual setting of the story.
What is the speculating fever/get rich quick schemes?
A story like "The Minister's Black Veil," where everything is representative of something, is called this.
What is an allegory?