Name that Genre!
Type or category of a story
Genre
Characterization is how an author shows a character’s ______ and personality.
traits
Mood is the overall ______ the reader gets from a story.
Feeling
The author's attitude toward the subject matter or audience, conveyed through their choice of words, sentence structure, and other literary devices
Tone
In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” who comes to visit Roderick Usher?
The narrator, his childhood friend
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is an example of this type of gothic literature updated for its time.
Modern Gothic
Things that the author tells you about a character (how they look).
Direct Characterization
True or False: Tone and mood are the same thing.
False
Poe’s tone is __________, while Cortázar’s tone is more calm.
Dramatic, serious
In “House Taken Over,” what strange thing starts happening to the house?
Strange noises take over sections of the house.
House Taken Over belongs to this genre, where magical events happen in everyday life.
Magical Realism
Things that you learn about the character that tells you about them (how they act, how they speak, how they think).
Indirect Characterization
In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the description of the decaying mansion contributes most directly to this mood.
Gloomy, anxious
True or False: The tone of House Taken Over is panicked and dramatic.
False
In Usher, what happens to Madeline at the end of the story?
She comes back to life after dying, then seems to die again
In "The Fall of the House of Usher", there is a focus on this element of the setting, which tells us a lot about the genre.
The creepy, mysterious house
In Usher, Roderick is characterized as nervous and fearful through his ______ and behavior.
appearance or actions
True or False: Both stories use houses (the setting) to help create mood.
True
When writing "The Fall of the House of Usher," Edgar Allen Poe creates this tone by using words like “bleak,” “haunted” and “grim”
In House Taken Over, how do the siblings respond when the final part of the house is taken over?
They leave forever and lock the door
One feature of magical realism in "House Taken Over" is that the characters respond to strange events in this way.
As if they are normal
Roderick Usher is shown as unstable and fearful, while the siblings in House Taken Over are shown as ______.
calm, accepting
Usher creates a mood of fear and doom, while House Taken Over creates a mood that feels more like this.
Mysterious
In “House Taken Over,” the narrator’s way of describing losing parts of the house creates this tone.
Calm, casual
Both stories end with the loss of the house, and both of these leaving the homes forever.