The Tell-Tale Heart
Why the narrator wants to kill the old man.
What is he has a strange eye?
What the masked visitor symbolizes
What is the Red Death?
Word the raven always uses to answer the narrator's questions.
What is "nevermore"?
The common superstition about black cats, which the narrator's wife believes.
What are witches in disguise?
The century(s) in which the Gothic Period took place
What is the late 18th to early 19th century?
What the narrator is trying to convince readers.
What is that he is not crazy?
What is wealth & prosperity?
Point of view in which The Raven is written.
What is 1st person?
What the narrator told the reader before he began the story.
What is he would die tomorrow and he wanted to free his soul?
The period in which Gothic Literature mixed.
What is romantic?
The narrator believing that he hears the heartbeat of the old man beneath the floor board is a symbol of this human emotion.
What is guilt?
What the clock symbolizes.
What is the guests do not have long to live?
Poetic element used in the line, "While I nodded, nearly napping...."
What is alliteration?
Characteristic of Gothic Lit being expressed when the narrator feels guilty about killing Pluto and resorts to drinking.
What is emotional distress?
A dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions
The main conflict of The Tell-Tale Heart.
What is Man v Self?
What the series of colors of the rooms symbolizes.
What is the progression of life toward death?
Poetic element in the line, "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain..."
What is assonance?
An example of omens & curses in The Black Cat
What is when the narrator's house burns down after he kills Pluto?
Ordinary objects, events, people, or animals to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance.
What is a symbol?
Theme of The Tell-Tale Heart
What is "guilt can pressure you into doing the right thing"?
The allegorical lesson
The definition of plume as it is used in the line, "Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!"
What is a feather?
The transformation of the narrator
What is a loving family man into a violent alcoholic?
A narrative work with two levels of meaning: the literal (obvious), and the symbolic.
What is allegory?