Themes 1
Themes 2
Characters
Settings
Stories
100
The term “gothic” was originally used to describe this.
What is architecture?
100
An author may use this theme to complicate the point of view, presenting the text as a discovery of a forgotten work.
What is gothic counterfeit?
100
A tempter and deceiver.
What is the devil?
100
This place crosses all cultures and ages...It is a necessary place people go, but no one lives there.
What is a cemetery?
100
This literary device used in “The Masque of the Red Death,” lets objects stand for more than one thing.
What is symbolism?
200
This Theme involves the current generation suffering for evil deeds of their ancestors.
What is ancestral curse?
200
The dark art of communicating with the dead (i.e. Ouija Boards, “Bloody Mary”).
What is necromancy?
200
A body double or alter ego...it is a German word.
What is doppelgänger?
200
A dwelling inhabited or regularly visited by a ghost or other supernatural being. (Think “Red Death”)
What is haunted house/castle/dungeon?
200
The journal entries in “The Damned Thing,” represent this Gothic literary device.
What is unreliable narrator?
300
This theme may involve illicit trade in cadavers, or be motivated by science.
What is bodysnatching?
300
The act of repaying someone for a harm.
What is revenge?
300
A force or creature relentlessly persecutes or chastises this character for a real or imagined wrong.
What is the pursued protagonist?
300
This story includes a dungeon with carvings of demons and other creatures on the wall.
What is "The Pit and the Pendulum?"
300
In “The Pit and the Pendulum” what group convicted the narrator?
What is The Spanish Inquisition?
400
These themes, closely related, my reveal the future, or urges, impulses and desires.
What is dreaming/nightmares?
400
Uncanny events that are sometimes explained away or dismissed because of laws of everyday reality. (Think “The Damned Thing”)
What is the supernatural?
400
This character has trouble accurately relating events, and makes incorrect assumptions.
What is the unreliable narrator?
400
A device used to obscure objects, reduce visibility or hide something terrifying.
What is mist/fog?
400
Peyton Farquhar is about to be hanged in “On Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” for this reason.
What is sabotage?
500
Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado” uses this theme, as the narrator gains revenge against his enemy.
What is entrapment?
500
A striking change in appearance, or a change in the form or function of an organism by a natural or unnatural process. (Think Masque of Red Death)
What is transformation/metamorphosis?
500
This character poses as a hero at the beginning of a story, or has enough heroic qualities that he/she may be seen as more than just a bad guy.
What is villain-hero?
500
Each room in “The Masque of the Red Death” has a theme. How was the 7th room decorated. There are three features.
What are all black, Red light, Black clock?
500
In “The Devil and Tom Walker,” Tom gives this reason for not taking the Devil’s deal the first time they meet.
What is he doesn't want to share the money...or greed?
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