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She wrote the famous novel Frankenstein and was the wife of Percy Shelley.

Who is Mary Shelley?

100

This part of the story ties up all loose ends of the plot. 

What is the falling action?

100

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?

100

The narrator tells his story from here.

What is prison or asylum?

100

Gothic literature first became popular around this time period and in this country.

What is England, in the late 18th to the 19th century?

200

He is a well-known, Virginian author who wrote many pieces of Gothic literature including short stories and poems.

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

200

This step of plot analysis comes at the end of the exposition and begins the plot of the story.

What is the inciting incident?

200

These bizarre entities are common antagonists in gothic works. 

Who are ghosts, witches, vampires, supernatural beings and monsters?

200

Quoth the raven?

What is nevermore?

200

Often considered the first gothic.

What is The Castle of Otranto?

300

He wrote many modern Gothic novels, including It, The Dark Tower and much more.

Who is Stephen King?

300

In Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, it is revealed in this part of the story that the father had an evil eye. 

What is the exposition?

300

How the protagonist of a Gothic novel commonly feels.

What are intense emotions?

300

These many rooms host a large party.

What is seven?

300
This actor commonly plays the gothic hero.

Who is Johnny Depp?

400

He is considered the father of the modern vampire novel.

Who is Bram Stoker?

400

The death of all the participants in Prince Prospero's masque is this part of the story.

What is the resolution?

400

The women in Gothic literature are typically portrayed as this.

Who are damsels in distress?

400

The narrator of some other gothic tales might have this in common with the narrator from "The Tell-Tale Heart."

What is unreliable/mad?

400

The true monster, rather than his creation.

Who is Dr. Frankenstein?

500

He first used the word 'Gothic' to describe a story, The Castle of Otranto.

Who is Horace Walpole?

500

The murder of the father in The Tell-Tale Heart is this part of plot development.

What is the rising action?

500

The reason that many people in Gothic novels die, what haunts them?

What are curses or prophesies?

500

The author died in this manner.

What is unknown?

500

Movies like Star Wars and Ender's Game only exist because of this type of literature?

What is gothic?

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