Terms
The events that follow each other and cause other events to happen.
What is plot?
The word "amontillado" in "A Cask of Amontillado" refers to this
What is wine?
The genre of literature that combines elemesnts of horror and romanticism
What is gothic?
I am the author of "The Black Cat", "The Raven", and "A Cask of Amontillado".
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
The purpose for a story map
What is "a way to plan the plot of the story"
The character that the reader is intended to empathize with.
Who is the protagonist?
What is The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
I am the protagonist of "Click, Clack the Rattlebag"
What is the exposition?
The point of greatest intensity in the story; the turning point.
What is Man vs Man (Billy v Landlady) ?
This literary genre emphasized human emotions and the unseen
What is romanticism?
I am the author of "The Lottery"
Who is Shirley Jackson?
Name two stories that share the subject of revenge
Whare are "Cask of Amontillado" and "Moonface"
The author's message about human nature or the world we live in
What is theme?
The theme of "The Lottery"
What is "it is dangerous to mindlessly preserve tradition"
These Dark Ages groups lent their name to the Gothic architecture and literary movement
Who are the visigoths and ostragoths?
I am the foolish, happy, trusting drunken "clown" that is killed in "A Cask of Amontillado"
Who is Fortunato?
What is: Internal takes place withing the individual/person and external takes place between the individual and an outside force?
The contrast between appearance and reality or what happens and what we expect to happen
What is irony?
This is the theme from "The Possibility of Evil"
found from Elements of Story ppt (09/12)
This literay movement emphasized logic, mathematics, and science
What is Transcendentalism?
I am the antagonist of "The Lottery"
Who are the townspeople/society?
This is what we call clues that are planted in the story that hint at what will happen later
What is foreshadowing?
This is what happens when two different ideas are placed side-by-side to create a new, ironic meaning that highlights their differences
What is juxtaposition?
The mood in "The Lottery" change from this in beginning to this in the end of the story?
What is pleasant to horrifying?
It starts out with a pleasant mood. The atmosphere seems cheerful and excited.
Then, it turns into horrifying mood when we realize that the people are going to murder one of their citizens.
This gothic literary first got its name from gothic architecture. These are the characteristics of gothic styled buildings:
gothic shaped windows, tall ceilings/rooflines, gargoyles, painted ceilings, converted abbeys, churches, and monasteries
Who is John Claverhouse?