"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting...
What are a character's words?
100
Emily Grierson kills Homer Barron
What is person vs. person?
100
The rhyming pattern of the poem; ex) ABCBBB
What is rhyme scheme?
100
The setting of most gothic stories is designed to create a scary or creepy ___.
What is mood?
200
A prince throws a masquerade to avoid a deadly plague
What is "The Masque of the Red Death"?
200
When the eyes of Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image, he was seen to be convulsed with a strong shudder either or terror or distaste.
What is a character's actions?
200
The Black Cat narrator's alcoholism
What is person vs. self?
200
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
What is alliteration?
200
The ___ of "The Masque of the Red Death" is that you can't avoid death.
What is theme?
300
A man is sentenced to death for murder
What is "The Black Cat"?
300
...a foreman named Homer Barron, a Yankee--a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face.
What is a character's appearance?
300
Emily takes carriage rides with Homer despite the townspeople's disapproval
What is person vs. society?
300
Suddenly there came a tapping / As of someone gently rapping
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The smell around Emily's house and her purchase of arsenic are an example of this literary device
What is foreshadowing?
400
This story is an example of "Southern Gothic" literature
What is "A Rose for Emily"?
400
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I did not know myself. My own soul seemed suddenly to fly from my body. A devilish hatred, fed by the gin, filled me.
What are a character's feelings?
400
The patch of white fur on the cat's chest appears to take the shape of the gallows
What is person vs. self OR supernatural?
400
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer...
What is internal rhyme?
400
The narrator of "The Black Cat" has a surprisingly calm, stable ___ when he tells us about how he murdered his wife.
What is tone?
500
This story is an allegory--a story with two layers of meaning.
What is "The Masque of the Red Death"?
500
Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up.
What is a character's effect on others?
500
The masqueraders vs. the Red Death
What is person vs. environment?
500
That is ; lattice
What is slant rhyme?
500
Poe uses the gallows-shaped fur to ___ the narrator's feelings of guilt for murdering Pluto.