Masque of The Red Death
What does the "Red Death" symbolize?
What is: death, tuberculosis, inevitability of death.
What is the relationship between the narrator and Roderick Usher?
What is: childhood friends
What is the speaker's relationship to Annabel Lee?
What is: her lover
What literary device(figurative language) is used in “kingdom by the sea”?
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Repetition
D) Irony
What is: B: Metaphor
What does the speaker in "Annabel Lee" do every night?
What is: sleeps beside her tomb
What does the black room with the red windows represent?
What is: it represents death
What happens to Madeline Usher?
What is: She dies and is buried alive
What does the speaker blame for Annabel Lee's death?
What is: jealous angels
What is the definition of a metaphor?
What is: a comparison of two unlike things, by saying one thing is another thing.
How does the speaker of "Annabel Lee" describe their love?
What is: stronger than anyone else's
What do the guests do when the clock strikes each hour?
What is: everyone stops what they are doing and freezes
What does the narrator witness at the end of the story?
What is: The house collapses into the lake
What is the setting of the poem?
A. A castle in the mountains
B. A kingdom by the sea
C. A forest
D. A city
What is: B: A kingdom by the sea
What is the definition of alliteration?
What is: the repetition of the beginning sound of 2 or more words in a line of poetry.
What theme is most central to "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
A) Family loyalty
B) Madness and decay
C) Love and betrayal
D) Power and corruption
What is: B: Madness and Decay
Why does Prince Prospero hold the masquerade ball?
What is: to distract/take everyone's mind off of the plague
What mood dominates the story?
A. Joyful
B. Romantic
C. Mysterious & Eerie
D. Hopeful
What is: C. Mysterious & Eerie
What mood does Poe create in this story?
A. Joyful
B. Angry
C. Hopeful
D. Melancholy/Sad
What is: D: Melancholy/Sad
What is the figurative language used in this line:
"And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;"
What is: alliteration and metaphor
In "Masque of the Red Death", what is Prince Prospero's ultimate fate?
What is: He dies/is destined to die
How does Poe use color symbolism in the story?
What is: to represent each stage of life
What role does the house play in the story?
What is: It symbolizes the Usher's family decline
What theme is most prominent in the poem?
A) Betrayal
B) Eternal love
C) Revenge
D) Isolation
What is: B: Eternal Love
What is the figurative language used in this line:
"That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee."
What is: Personification
What theme is most central to "The Masque of the Red Death?
A) Love conquers all
B) Death is unavoidable
C) Power corrupts
D) Time heals
What is: B: Death is unavoidable