Mary Shelley
Literary Devices
Rhyme of the
Ancient Mariner
Ancient Mariner
Miscellaneous
Frankenstein
The Monster
100
Her parents were both famous kinds of these
what are writers
100
"The wind fanned the fire, and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames, which clung to it and licked it with their forked and destroying tongues."
what is personification
100
And I had done a hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to ____.
what is "blow"
100
This is the bird Walton refers to that the Mariner inexplicably kills in Rime of the Ancient Mariner
what is an albatross
100
This is what Victor's parents provide him that he does not provide his creation
what is parenting/love and care
100
As the monster recollects his first moments of being, he repeatedly mentions eating berries and the desire to clothe himself, references to this tale
What is Paradise Lost or the Story of Adam and Eve
200
This is the lake at which Mary wrote Frankenstein
what is Lake Geneva
200
"I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope."
Literary device?
what is simile
200
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was ____.
what is "hung"
200
This is the Volcano in Indonesia that erupted in 1815, triggering the "year without a summer"
what is Mount Tambora
200
Agrippa, Paracelsus and Magnus were the foremost minds in this medieval chemical science
what is alchemy
200
When the monster reads Paradise Lost, these are the two characters he relates with most
who are Adam and Satan
300
Her Mother wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" becoming one of the first ones of these
what is a feminist
300
This is the literary technique exhibited through
"Water, water everywhere
nor any drop to drink"
what is irony
300
The souls did from their bodies fly,—
They fled to bliss or woe!
And every soul, it passed me by,
Like the whizz of my _________
what is "crossbow"
300
This character says: "Dear William! dearest blessed child! I soon shall see you again in heaven, where we shall all be happy; and that consoles me, going as I am to suffer ignominy and death"
who is Justine Moritz
300
This is who tells Victor that the writings of Agrippa are "sad trash" (using exactly those words).
Who is his father
300
"I endeavoured to crush these fears, and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise..." What is "the trial" which the monster will undergo?
what is introducing himself to the cottagers/the hope of endearing himself to them
400
This is why Mary felt the need to add an author's note to Frankenstein
what is to explain how a young girl could come up with such a hideous idea"
400
This is the device used in the closing of Victor's father's letter to him:
Your affection and afflicted father,
Alphonse Frankenstein
what is alliteration or consonance
400
An orphan's curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! more horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not ___.
what is "die"
400
When Walton refers to "Land of mist and snow," he (and Shelley) is alluding to this poem
what is Rime of the Ancient Mariner
400
Victor refrains from telling people about his creation for two reasons. First, he assumes people will think he is crazy. This is the second reason.
what is peoples' inabilty to track/kill the monster due to his physical superiority
"Who could arrest a creature capable of scaling the overhanging sides of Mont Saleve?"
400
These are the two distinct reactions the monster has when he experiences fire for the first time
what is delight/joy and agony/pain
500
This is what Mary claims inspired her idea for the monster
what is a dream/a nightmare
500
What is the type of metaphor being used when Frankenstein says:
"Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me, - let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!"
hint: an e_______ metaphor
what is an extended metaphor
500
And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as _______.
what is "emerald"
500
The epigraph of the novel reads: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me" and comes from this poem
what is Milton's Paradise Lost
500
"Life and death appeared to me _____ ______, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of _____ into our _____ world."
(Fill in the blanks)
what is ideal bounds, light, dark
500
Two parts:
These are the three books the monster reads
And this is the one that resonates with him most emotionally
What are Sorrows of Werter, Plutarch's Lives and Paradise Lost
"But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions"