General Terms
What is conflict?
Oral History Myths
What is Early Native American?
When stories are passed on through word of mouth, not through writing.
What is oral tradition?
This was Jonathan Edwards profession.
What is a preacher?
"The Red Death" as described as in the story
What is a hideous and deadly disease?
The physical and mental characteristics of a character in a story.
What is characterization?
Images of hell
What is Colonial?
This animal holds the world on their back.
What is a turtle?
Edward's vivid descriptions of Hell are meant to
What is frighten?
This is the main purpose of the chiming clock.
What is to foreshadow the Red Death
The art of persuasion
What is rhetoric?
What is Gothic Literature?
This animal dove to retrieve the Earth and was successful.
What is a muskrat?
This was the message of the sermon.
What is to convert to Christianity or else be sent to hell?
The colors of the rooms.
What are blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black with red windows
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is allegory?
The earth and humankind are connected and should be in balance with one another.
This is the purpose of myths.
What is to explain the unexplainable?
Based on the context clues, what does gulf most likely mean in the passage: "If God should let you go, you would immediately sink swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf."
What is a wide gap?
This allegorical reading stems from the fact that Prince Prospero attempts to hide from the Red Death in a luxury castle.
What is the futility of hiding from death.
Description of a setting, character, or action that invokes the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
Humans are sinful beings that are capable of sin, guilt, and self-destruction.
What is Gothic Fiction?
The Earth on the Turtle's Back showcases the supportive relationship between man and...
What is nature?
This is the rhetorical strategy used by Jonathan Edwards in his sermon.
Hint: Remember the types of rhetoric
What is pathos?
This allegory is delivered through the passing through the colored rooms, starting with the Blue Room and ending in the Black room.
What is the life cycle?