Vocabulary
The top of something; the peak or highest point.
Pinnacle
A dwelling that is inhabited by or is regularly visited by a ghost or other supernatural being.
What is the black box in The Lottery a symbol of?
Death
In The Raven, the protagonist is haunted by the thoughts of his deceased Lenore and by a raven that only says one word, which is?
Nevermore
Annabel Lee, The Raven, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Highwayman share this Gothic theme. It requires a specific relationship between two people.
Romance
Filled with unexpressed or extreme anger
Seething
This element creates a sense of uncertain apprehension that leads to a fear of the obscure or the unknown.
Work of Terror
"I must not only punish, but punish with impunity." What does Montressor mean when he says this at the beginning of The Cask of Amontillado?
He must punish him (Fortunato) without the risk of of being punished himself.
In Lady Lazarus, the speaker exemplifies this Gothic element by returning every ten years to haunt those who committed the atrocious acts to Jews.
Revenant
Annabel Lee, The Raven, Lady Lazarus, The Lottery, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame are either centered around this Gothic element or their endings involve it.
Death
Confusion or disorder; chaos
Tumult
A being returned from the dead that is set to enact revenge or something that was left unfinished in its past life.
Revenant
This literary device is depicted in how the people are acting at the start of the Lottery. Collecting stones, nervously talking amongst each other but not about the lottery and the setting hint at this.
Foreshadowing
How are Bess and the highwayman killed in The Highwayman?
Bess kills herself as a warning to her lover, which causes him to charge forward and get shot himself.
Quasimodo, Lady Lazarus, the way the townsfolk treat each other in The Lottery, and the setting of the Cask of Amontillado all share this Gothic element.
Grotesque
Angelic beings, often depicted as cherubs
Seraphs
When a character decides that new laws of nature must be created in order to explain a phenomenon occurring.
Marvelous
Provide two examples of grotesque and which story they are in.
Cask - Catacombs, how Fortunato dies,
Lottery - Children taking part, stoning to death,
How does the poem Annabel Lee end? What does the protagonist do in the sepulcher by the sea?
Lays down and gives up on living by the side of his deceased lover.
The Raven, For Annie, Lady Lazarus, and Kubla Khan share this Gothic element that pertains to the characteristics of the main character of the story/poem.
Unreliable Narrator
Extreme sadness, sometimes for no obvious reason
Melancholy
This literary device is featured in almost every Gothic piece. There are three types.
In the Cask of Amontillado, Montressor continuously asks Fortunato about his health and well-being, even though we know that he is going to kill him. This is an example of what?
Dramatic Irony
In Kubla Khan, the entire poem is said to be an example of one Gothic element. The first line of the poem tells us what it is.
Dreaming
Quasimodo and the gypsies, The Raven, The Lottery, The Cask of Amontillado, and Bess from The Highwayman all share this Gothic element.
Entrapment and Imprisonment