Vocab
Feral
What is resembling a wild animal.
Magical Realism
What is a literary and artistic style that combines a realistic view of the world with magical elements.
House
What is Falling apart, breaking down
Birth
What is May 22, 1859
First Published As
What is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Calamity
What is an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.
Motif
What is a short succession of notes producing a single impression; a brief melodic or rhythmic formula out of which longer passages are developed.
Psychology
What is Instability, mental insanity
Death
What is July 7, 1930
The Worlds First
What is a consulting Detective
Indelible
What is making marks that cannot be removed.
Gothic
What is tales often involve circumstances of mystery and horror, a general atmosphere of gloom and doom, and elements like dungeons, ghosts, and decaying castles with secret passageways.
Atmosphere
What is Dark, eerie, scary, supernatural, suspense
Sybilings
What is 9 siblings, in a family of 10 children
Addicted to
What is Heroin and Cocanie
Erroneous
What is wrong; incorrect.
Dramatic Irony
What is a form of irony that is expressed through a work’s structure: an audience’s awareness of the situation in which a work’s characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters’, and the words and actions of the characters therefore take on a different—often contradictory—meaning for the audience than they have for the work’s characters.
Family
What is a Curse, Secret
Former Profession
Medical Student
Inspiration for Sherlock
Who is Dr.Joseph Bell
Subterfuge
What is deceit used in order to achieve one's goal.
Allusion
What is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Narrator
What is adds a sense of mystery, uncertainty
Obsesion
What is the religion and psychic research subject based upon the belief that sprits of the departed continued to exist.
Origin Of His Name
What is Sherlock named after his favorite Cricketer