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Gothic Lit. Terms
100
Repeats the line "Nevermore" over and over
Who is the raven?
100
Where some critics believe "The Masque of the Red Death" take place
What is in Prospero's mind?
100
An hourly symbol for time in "Masque of the Red Death"
What is the ebony clock?
100
"While I nodded, nearly napping" is a famous line from which selection
What is "The Raven"
100
repetition of beginning consonant sounds like "nodded, nearly napping"
What is alliteration?
200
The author of _The Scarlet Letter_ and "The Minister's Black Veil"
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
200
The place Prince Prospero's friends go to escape the plague
What is the abbey?
200
The black room with red windows represents this in "The Masque of the Red Death."
What is death?
200
This character is described as " a happy and dauntless and sagacious" man
Who is Prince Prospero?
200
Feeling or atmosphere created by a writer; Poe is a master of this
What is mood?
300
Name of the party crasher at the abbey
What is Red Death?
300
Place where the Red Death kills Prince Prospero
What is the black apartment or room?
300
Prince Prospero sybmolizes this
What is wealth or prosperity?
300
This line, "Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I has sought to borrow/ From my books surcease of sorrow," illustrates the romantic writers' disagreement with this previous school of thought.
What is rationalism?
300
A person, place, or object that stands for an abstract idea or feeling
What is a symbol?
400
This man is depressed because of the death of the woman he loved.
Who is the speaker in "The Raven"?
400
The symbol of birth in "The Masque of the Red Death"
Where is the blue room?
400
Security and safety are symbolized by this in "Masque of the Red Death"
What is the abbey
400
"He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel" describes this character
What is the Red Death?
400
A symbolic work in which characters and objects stand for ideas outside the work; teaches a lesson
What is an allegory?
500
I am the father of the horror and detective stories.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
500
This is where the Raven is perched.
What is on the bust of Pallas above the chamber door?
500
The seven rooms of the abbey in "Masque of the Red Death" represent this
What is the days of the week or the passage of time (i.e. a person's life span)
500
The sound devices used in these lines: "'Sir,' said I, 'or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
What are internal rhyme and repetition?
500
Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville are called the ____ Romantics
What is brooding?