House Taken Over
The sister of the protagonist in "House Taken Over."
Who is Irene?
The owner of the House of Usher who suffers from a "ghastly pallor of the skin" and a "miraculous luster of the eye" (pp. 125).
Who is Roderick Usher?
The word repeated by the Raven numerous times in Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem.
What is Nevermore?
A plague spread mostly throughout Europe in the 14th century.
The art and study of interpretation.
What is Hermeneutics?
A literary movement popularized by South American authors that blended realism with fantastical elements.
What is Magical Realism?
A subgenre of horror that focuses on the decay of the psychological and physical.
What is Gothic Fiction?
The name of protagonist's wife.
Who is Lenore?
The color of the large clanging clock.
What is ebony?
A short story told from the perspective of the witch from Hansel and Gretel.
What is The Cottage?
The amount of money hidden in the wardrobe of the protagonists' bedroom.
What is fifteen thousand pesos?
In ___, setting is not a background - it is a character
What is Gothic Fiction?
This is the iconic 5 word beginning of "The Raven."
Where does "once upon a midnight dreary" appear.
The name of the biblical figure compared to the personified Red Death.
Who is Herod?
The scientific term used to describe the feeling humans get when something looks slightly off.
What is pattern recognition?
The room in which the protagonist and his sister end up in at the end of the story.
What is Irene's bedroom?
The main rhapsody sung in The Fall of the House of Usher that directly correlates with its plot.
What is "The Haunted Palace."
It is a biblical allusion, appearing in the fifteenth stanza of "The Raven."
Where does "Balm in Gilead" appear?
A philosophical theory and lifestyle viewing the fulfillment of fleshly desires as the highest calling in life.
What is hedonism?
A malevolent, cannibalistic spirit or monster from Algonquian Native American folklore.
What is a Windigo?
The most popular author of the magical realism genre.
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
Roderick compares himself to this creature at the end of the story before Madeline exacts her vengeance.
What is Ethelred's dragon?
This is where the Raven perches after entering the Speaker's home.
What is the "bust of Pallas?"
Mr. Delk interprets the seven colors and seven rooms in this manner.
Who interprets the seven colors and seven rooms as representing the cycle of life from birth to death?
This is the proper way to interpret a text by looking at the context, the author's life, and the literary genre.
What is Exegesis?