Tell-Tale Heart
This bothers the narrator about the old man.
What is his eye?
The type of party that Prince Prospero has.
What is a masquerade ball?
Poe insists that a short story should be _________________ .
What is short?
Romantic literature exalts this over logic.
What is emotion/intuition?
This symbol suggests that the revelers' days are numbered in "The Masque of the Red Death."
What is the ebony clock?
The narrator hides the dead body here.
Where is under the floorboards?
The western-most room is this color.
What is black?
Poe says that a short story should aim for this.
What is the truth?
Romanticism was a reaction to which era that preceded it?
What is “The Age of Enlightenmen, the Age of Reason or Neoclassicism?”
"Wealth cannot protect one from death" is its theme.
"What is The Masque of the Red Death?
They come by the house after the murder.
Who are the police?
This sound makes the revelers stop dancing every hour.
What is the chiming clock?
Poe said that a short story should begin with this.
What is “the first sentence.”
Romanticism began during this CENTURY.
What is the 19th century?
"Prince Prospero" and "Tell-Tale" are examples of this poetic device.
What is alliteration?
This one of the narrator's senses has become more acute.
What is his hearing?
The Red Death takes this amount of time to kill its victims.
What is one-half hour/30 minutes?
Poe said that a short story should stress each of the following EXCEPT this one:
imagination
creation
invention
convention
What is “convention?”
This type of fiction contains characteristics that are grotesque, horrifying or supernatural.
What is Gothic?
In "The Masque of the Red Death," the revelers discover this under the robes of the party crasher.
What is "nothing"?
The narrator tries to convince the reader that he is NOT _____________.
What is insane?
The characters and the settings are symbolic in this type of story.
What is an allegory?
Poe invented this type of short-story genre. ”The Purloined Letter“ is an example of it.
What is the “detective genre or ratiocinative tale?”
Romanticism exalts all of the following elements EXCEPT this one:
the individual
nature
the supernatural
conformity
the common man
What is “conformity?”
The tripod’s flames go out entirely when this happens.
What is “when the last of the revelers dies.”