Yellow Wallpaper
What are some things that author sees in the yellow wallpaper?
A woman trying to get out. Bars and lines and zigzags.
I died in the streets of Baltimore. The Ravens are named after my famous poem. I am America's best short story writer.
Edgar Allan Poe
Name one characteristic that makes Masque gothic?
bizarre house, death, supernatural elements
We Grow Accustomed to the Dark focuses on what?
Being able to adapt and come through the darkness
Be Who You are and Be that well is most like gothic romanticism or transcendentalism?
transcendentalism
Who are the women creeping at night in the garden?
Other women that stuck somewhere they don't want to be
I stayed in the attic and wore white. Much of my poetry was published after my lifetime. I used slant rhyme and dashes.
Emily Dickinson
How long did it take for the red death to kill you?
30 minutes
What characteristics of transcendentalism does Emily Dickinson have?
She's a rebel, independent, self sufficient, does things her own way.
What does Nature always wears the color of the spirit mean?
Whatever you are feeling, that is how you will interpret nature.
There is a lot of imagery in The Yellow Wallpaper. Name two senses she uses to describe it throughout the story?
sense of smell, sight, and touch
I was friends with Thoreau. I live in Concord, MA. I wrote Self Reliance and Nature. I'm a transcendentalist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who was Herod?
He asked for all the young babies to be killed
In The Soul Selects her Society, what is the overall message?
The speaker will choose with confidence who she wants to let into her world and who she doesn't. She leaves out authority and religion.
Thoreau says that he did not want to die to discover that he ____ _____ _____.
Had not lived
Name two things about the room she stayed in besides the yellow paper.
It had a big brown bed that wouldn't move. There were bars on the windows and rings in the floor.
I wrote Walden. I was friends with Emerson. I am a transcendentalist. I went to the woods to live deliberately.
Henry David Thoreau
What two things are personified in the Masque?
The red death and the black clock
In Much Madness is Divine Sense, what is the overall message?
People who are labeled crazy are not and those who are the majority are often crazy
What story goes against "Be Who You are and Be that well" because it suppresses talents?
Harrison Bergeron
Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?
Charlotte Perkins Gillman
I was in WWII and caught by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. I wrote novels like Slaughter House Five.
Kurt Vonnegut
How many colored rooms were there?
7
Why does Emily ask a question in the line "I'm Nobody. . Who are you?"
Name two people that were "misunderstood" according to Emerson.
Pythagorus, Luther, Galileo, Jesus, Copernicus