Symbols
Literary Devices
Who Said What
100
Birthmark
What is mortality?
100
"The mind is in a sad state when sleep..."
What is alliteration?
100
“this hateful mark makes me the object of your horror and disgust”
Who is Georgiana?
200
The Plant/Flower
What is death or the effects of the experiment?
200
"there was the mark again, a crimson stain upon the snow"
What is an Analogy?
200
“Unless all my science have deceived me, it cannot fail.”
Who is Aylmer?
300
Aylmer's Dream
What is Georgiana’s death?
300
"Noblest, dearest. tenderest wife,...doubt not my power."
What is Ethos?
300
“you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect … shocks me”
Who is Aylmer?
400
Sunlight
What is Aylmer's worship of science?
400
"The drought cannot fail. Behold its effect upon this plant."
What is Logos?
400
“Either remove this dreadful hand, or take my wretched life!”
Who is Georgiana?
500
Fire
What is death?
500
"in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould"
What is Parallel Sentence Structure?
500
"If she were my wife, I'd never part with that birthmark."
Who is the Aminadab?
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