Gothic Literature

Gothic Literature

100

Gothic Literature emerged in this century

18th 

200

This author is infamous for using an unreliable narrator and is known for tales of mystery and horror.

Edgar Allan Poe 

300

This is the author of Frankenstein 

Mary Shelley 

400

Gothic Literature combines these two elements. 

Horror and Romance 

500

Written in 1765 by Horace Walpole, this was the first Gothic novel.

What is The Castle of Otranto?

History of Gothic

100

This Germanic tribe inspired the word “Gothic.”

The Goths 

200

The Goths split into these two groups: one settled west, one east

Visigoths and Ostrogoths?

300

The Goths were often viewed this way by the Romans.

Barbaric 

400

The Goths originated in what is now this country

Southern Sweden 

500

The Goths fought this empire for centuries 

Roman

Gothic Architecture & Art

100

Name one characteristic of Gothic Architecture/buildings 

Pointed Arches, Ribbed Vaults, Flying Buttresses, Large Stained Glass Windows, Verticality and Light, Ornate Decoration, Tracery

200

Many viewed this architecture as ugly and..

Barbaric 

300

Pointed arches usually indicate this

Heavenward aspiration 

400

Typically describes a European style which flourished from these centuries.

12th-16th

500

This country is where Gothic architecture first developed in the 12th century.

France

Gothic Summer Reading

100

This author wrote "The Black Cat" 

Edgar Allan Poe 

200

This is the name of the cat from "The Black Cat" 

Pluto 

300

This is the author who wrote "The Man Who Loved Flowers" 

Stephen King 

400

This is where the narrator of "The Black Cat" is as he is telling this story

A prison cell

500

This is the type of narrator that Poe utilizes in "The Black Cat" 

unreliable