This is a common trope (element) associated with Gothic literature.
What is (answers may vary--up to host's discretion to consider correct/incorrect)?
100
This is what causes the main characters to vacate their house.
What are the "voices"?
100
This part of speech is employed by Gothic writers to give a detailed description of any particular scene often by appealing to senses.
What are adjectives?
100
This is the stage of the relationship between the two main characters at the beginning of The Feather Pillow.
What are newlyweds?
100
The authors of House Taken Over and The Feather Pillow both resided in this country and used it as an influence on their stories.
What is Argentina?
200
These are often symbols used in Gothic literature in which a sighting of represents bad omens.
What are animals (birds, monsters, snakes, etc.)
200
These are the main characters in House Taken Over.
Who are Irene and her brother?
200
This is a type of figurative language used by Gothic authors that applies human-like characteristics to inanimate objects to invoke a sense of creepiness.
What is personification?
200
This is the ailment that the woman in the story was diagnosed with by the doctor before she died.
What is anemia/influenza?
200
The author of House Taken Over.
Who is Julio Cortázar?
300
Supernatural elements are added to a story of natural order to create this sub-genre of Gothic literature.
What is magical realism?
300
These are two of the hobbies named in House Taken Over that the main characters routinely engage in.
What are knitting/stamp collecting/reading French literature?
300
This is an exchange of words between characters that gives the reader direct insight as to what is happening in a specific scene.
What is dialogue?
300
These are the two main characters in The Feather Pillow who are married to each other.
Who are Jordan and Alicia?
300
The author of The Feather Pillow.
Who is Horacio Quiroga?
400
These two things are part of the setting that help set the tone and mood of Gothic literature.
What is a specific time and place?
400
These are the two unusual things the narrator's sister does in her sleep that are not typical for most people.
What is talking and flailing?
400
This element of Gothic language is used to help create a slow pace and invokes an abrupt,suspenseful nature.
What are short choppy sentences?
400
This is the physical evidence left on the wife that let's the reader/servant/husband know how she was killed.
What are the two punctures on her temple?
400
This is the place Quiroga took both of his wives to live that eventually caused their resentment of him.
What is the jungle?
500
This architectural element was mentioned in The Feather Pillow to describe the facade of the building as well as a reference to the cold,dead nature of the story.
What is a frieze?
500
These are the two excuses the narrator gave for he and his sister never married.
What is his fiance died, and his sister turned down two suitors for seemingly no reason.
500
Crept, captured, and vanquished are examples of this part of speech that helps impact the mood or atmosphere of Gothic literature.
What are (action/evocative) verbs?
500
This is the metaphysical idea represented by the insect that eventually killed the wife in The Feather Pillow.
What is depression/anxiety/mental disorder?
500
This is why Julio Cortázar left South America and moved to France.