Key Literary Devices
The novel is structured as a story within a story
Frame Narrative
Why do authors use Gothic elements?
Used to create an atmosphere of mystery, horror, and suspense.
What are two examples of allusion in Frankenstein?
The Creature reads Paradise Lost and the author uses The Myth of Prometheus as part of her title.
What are two examples of pathos?
The death of Elizabeth and Alphonse and the description of Elizabeth's body and Victor's reaction.
Ambitious scientist and tragic hero/villain.
Victor Frankenstein
What part of the frame narrative establishes the setting and introduces Victor
Outer Frame
What are some examples of eerie settings? Name 3
Dark, gloomy laboratories, desolate Swiss Alps, isolated islands and the frozen Artic
What are two examples of symbolism in Frankenstein? What do they mean?
Light/Fire symbolizes knowledge, enlightenment and power
Ice/Artic represents isolation, death and desolation
What is an example of an oxymoron in Frankenstein?
The bridal bier
Nameless creation
The Creature
What frame is Victor's narration of life, creation and his pursuit of the Creature.
Middle Frame
What are and example of the supernational and the grotesque? Name 2.
The Creature and the unholy act of its creation
What is foreshadowing?
Hints of events that will occur later in the narrative.
Motifs are recurring elements in Frankenstein, name 3.
The dangers of knowledge, light and darkness, family and responsibility, letters and frame narratives and beauty and creation
Artic explorer and narrator of the frame story.
Robert Walton
What frame is the Creature's narration of his experiences, his learning, and his eventual vengeance.
Inner Frame
What are examples of intense emotion in Frankenstein?
Themes of madness, obsession and guilt
Give an example of situational irony.
Victor's pursuit of creating life, which he expects will bring him glory, ironically leads only to death and ruin.
List 3 themes from Frankenstein.
Consequences of unchecked ambition, isolation and alienation, nature vs nurture, responsibility of the Creator to the Creation and Prejudice and appearance
Victor's adopted cousin and bride.
Elizabeth
An example of Outer Frame in "Frankenstein".
Walton's letters to his sister.
Name two elements in the Romanticism movement.
The sublime and Emotion over reason.
Give an example of dramatic irony.
The reader knows more than the characters, such as when Victor fails to realize the Creature is stalking him or knows the fate of his family members before he does.
Explain why Prejudice and Appearance are a theme in Frankenstein.
The creature's grotesque appearance immediately causes all humans to reject him, regardless of his inherent sensitivity or intelligence.
The 4 people the Victor considers the Creature killed.
Clerval, William Frankenstein, Justine Moritz and Elisabeth Lavenza