Vocabulary
Plot
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Symbols and Literary Devices
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100
This word is defined as a measured portion of liquid. Another word for potion.
What is the word draught.
100
What is the profession that is held by our stories protagonist? What does he do?
What is an Alchemist, makes potions.
100
The alchemist who wants to remove the Birthmark from his wife's face.
Who is Alymer?
100
The birthmarks description.
What is a pixy hand, an Angel's touch. Red sploch against a field of snow.
100
The state Georgiana is in at the end of the story.
What is dying?
200
To be full of passion.
What is fervid.
200
Alymer loves science only as much as this one thing.
Who is his wife Georgiana.
200
The wife of the scientist. Keeper of the birthmark.
Who is Georgiana?
200
"Nature assimilates all her precious influences from earth and air." (name the literary device)
What is personfication?
200
Alymer is attempting to become god by doing this.
What is making the perfect woman?
300
Capable of being understood or recognized by the senses.
What is perceptible.
300
Georgiana while in Alymer's lab finds out that Alymer is not a very good alchemist after reading this material.
What is Alymer's logbook of experiments.
300
The assistant to the scientist who helps with his experiments. He feels badly about trying to remove the birthmark from Georgiana's face.
Who is Aminadab?
300
Georgiana as usual shrank as if a redhot iron had touched her cheek.
What is simile.
300
Says "You can not love what shocks you!"
Who is Georgiana?
400
With great attention to detail.
What is fastidious.
400
Georgiana can not stand her birthmark after noticing Alymer's gaze. Others treat her birthmark in two separate ways, one negative, one positive.
What is men:positive, females:negative.
400
The Greek goddess who brought the sculpture Galatea to life for a great sculptor.
Who is Aphrodite?
400
Aylmer's dream is an example of what literary device?
What is forshadowing?
400
The birthmark represents this statement of human nature.
What is humans are only perfect when they are imperfect.
500
Offensive
What is Odious
500
The flower that Alymer uses to test his potions on.
What is a Geranium?
500
A talented Greek sculptor from Cyprus. Created a sculpture which eventually came to life with help from a Greek goddess.
Who is Pygmalion?
500
Even Pygmalion, when his sculptured woman assumed life, felt not greater ecstasy than mine will be.
What is hyperbole?
500
The birthmark being removed from Georgiana's face make Georgiana imperfect, imperfect things can not exist in this world according to what law that Alymer tried to recreate.
What is the law of nature or god.
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