Plot & Characters
What is Merricat’s full name?
Who is Mary Katherine Blackwood?
“I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”
Who is Merricat?
The Blackwood home changed towards the end due to the?
What is the fire?
Who is Merricat?
This term's SAC will be written in this format
What is Text response / analysis Or TEEL?
Which family member rarely leaves the house?
Who is Constance Blackwood?
This character says they enjoy cooking and caring for the house.
Who is Constance?
The house symbolises this by the end of the novella.
What is isolation, tomb, ruin, entrapment?
The novella’s dark atmosphere and decaying setting are examples of this genre.
What is Gothic fiction?
This section of an essay introduces the author, text, themes, and contention.
What is the introduction?
What object does Merricat often bury or nail up for protection?
What are magical/superstitious objects or charms?
This character constantly talks about money and fixing the house.
Who is Cousin Charles?
Charles’ 'manly' obsession with repairing the house represents this ideology.
What is patriarchy, capitalism, or control?
Jackson creates horror through ordinary what?
What is domestic spaces?
Instead of retelling the plot, students should focus on analysing this.
What are themes, literary devices, and authorial messages?
What happened to most of the Blackwood family?
What is they were poisoned?
"I would have to find something else to bury here and I wish it could be Charles" pp.89
Who is Merricat?
What outside part of the Blackwood house was never fixed?
What is the stairs?
Food becomes frightening because it symbolises this.
What is poison?
Quotes should be smoothly blended into sentences using this writing skill.
What is embedding evidence/quotes?
What does the Blackwood cellar contain?
Preserves (jarred / pickled conserves)
"My Niece is not hard hearted / although I deserve to die—we all do, do we not?" pp.37
Who is Uncle Julian?
Who frequently visited the Blackwood house?
Who is Helen Clarke?
What magical creature does Merricat wish she was?
What is werewolf?
A strong analytical paragraph should begin with this sentence.
What is a topic sentence?