Edgar Allan Poe
What acts a symbol of family discord in "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
Hint: eylike windows, small crack in the wall, or the decaying trees around the house.
A small crack in the wall.
"I wanted to try my power over them both, to see if I could restore that gentler mood of my uncle's, and assure myself that Guy cared whether I was friendliest with him or not."
What does Sybil mean by "my power" ?
her beauty and charm
Nathaniel Hawthorne was ashamed of his relation to a famous judge from the Salem Witch trials. What did he do to separate himself from that judge?
"At the mention of the birthmark, Georgiana, as usual, shrank as if a redhot iron had touched her cheek."
What figurative language is in the above quote?
Simile
In the "The Fall of the House of Usher" Roderick is characterized as what kind of character?
Hint: For instance, cheerful and optimistic or melancholy and troubled soul.
melancholy and troubled soul
What do mirrors symbolize in "A Whisper in the Dark?"
Hint: self-reflection, vanity, deception
vanity
How is Aylmer from "The Birthmark" best described?
Hint: Careful about the dangers of science, selfishly ambitious, very handsome.
selfishly ambitious
When does Roderick and his sister die?
At the same time. She collapses on him and dies. He dies from fright when she falls on him.
"The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left . . . the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death."
What are "faint blush" and "lingering smile" foreshadowing?
Madeline is actually alive (buried alive).
Guy: "Never mind the dinner! I'm glad to be rid of it; so I'll drink to your health, Father, and then inspect our new ornament."
What / who is the ornament?
Sybil
"It was the fatal flaw of humanity which Nature, in one shape or another, stamps ineffaceably on all her productions . . . that their perfection must be wrought by toil and pain"
What is the theme in the above quote?
Hint: mental health, humanity is imperfect, family secrets.
Humanity is imperfect
"I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin. I heard them--many many days ago, yet I dared not--I dared not speak!"
Which character says the above? What is the character saying?
Roderick Usher
He knew that his sister was alive as she lay in the vault where he buried her, but he didn't dare say it to the narrator.
The main character in Edgar Allan Poe's original murder-mystery was C. August Dupin. He was the inspiration for which other famous murder-mystery detective.
Hint: Edgar Allan Poe didn't write this other famous murder-mystery series.
Sherlock Holmes
Louisa May Alcott was a champion for which social causes?
Hint: you should know 2, but you must give at least 1
Women's Suffrage
Abolitionist movement
What social cause influenced Nathaniel Hawthorne's writing?
Hint: Women's suffrage, Transcendentalist movement, abolitionist movement.
Transcendentalist movement
"I was a frank, fearless creature, quick to feel, speak, and act"
Who was this (which character)?
Can you name the story?
Sybil from "A Whisper in the Dark."
"It's evidence -- the evidence of the sentience -- was to be seen, he said . . . in the gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere of their own about the waters and the walls."
What does Roderick believe is sentient?
Hint: Lady Madeline, the House of Usher
the House of Usher
"I heard you say it myself the night after I came, when you told Guy to be cautious, because I could refuse to fulfill the engagement, if I knew that it was not binding against my will."
The above quote from "Whisper in the Dark" shows which theme?
Hint: Mental health, family secrets, or other
Family Secrets
autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
textbook on the history of the Salem Witch Trials
biography of Franklin Pierce
biography of Franklin Pierce
After they bury his sister, what does the narrator do to help calm Roderick?
He reads him a book about a man slaying a dragon