Plot & Characters
WHO SAID IT?
THE BLACKWOOD HOUSE
GOTHIC HORROR
SAC
100

What is Merricat’s full name?

Who is Mary Katherine Blackwood?

100

“I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”

Who is Merricat?

100

The Blackwood home changed towards the end due to the?

What is the fire?

100
Who is the gothic narrator of the story?

Who is Merricat?

100

This term's SAC will be written in this format

What is Text response / analysis Or TEEL? 

200

Which family member rarely leaves the house?

Who is Constance Blackwood?

200

This character says they enjoy cooking and caring for the house.

Who is Constance?

200

The house symbolises this by the end of the novella.

What is isolation, tomb, ruin, entrapment?

200

The novella’s dark atmosphere and decaying setting are examples of this genre.

What is Gothic fiction?

200

This section of an essay introduces the author, text, themes, and contention.

What is the introduction?

300

What object does Merricat often bury or nail up for protection?

What are magical/superstitious objects or charms?

300

This character constantly talks about money and fixing the house.

Who is Cousin Charles?

300

Charles’ 'manly' obsession with repairing the house represents this ideology.

What is patriarchy, capitalism, or control?

300

Jackson creates horror through ordinary what?

What is domestic spaces?

300

Instead of retelling the plot, students should focus on analysing this.

What are themes, literary devices, and authorial messages?

400

What happened to most of the Blackwood family?

What is they were poisoned?

400

"I would have to find something else to bury here and I wish it could be Charles" pp.89

Who is Merricat?

400

What outside part of the Blackwood house was never fixed? 

What is the stairs?

400

Food becomes frightening because it symbolises this.

What is poison?

400

Quotes should be smoothly blended into sentences using this writing skill.

What is embedding evidence/quotes?

500

What does the Blackwood cellar contain?

Preserves (jarred / pickled conserves)

500

"My Niece is not hard hearted / although I deserve to die—we all do, do we not?" pp.37

Who is Uncle Julian?

500

Who frequently visited the Blackwood house?

Who is Helen Clarke?

500

What magical creature does Merricat wish she was?

What is werewolf?

500

A strong analytical paragraph should begin with this sentence.

What is a topic sentence?

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