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"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Raven"
"The Minister's Black Veil"
Who or what is described by this quotation?
100
This is how the narrator knows Roderick Usher
What is as a childhood friend?
100
The number of party-goers the Prince invites to his abbey to escape the Red Death
What is a thousand?
100
The speaker is upset about losing this.
What is his love one- Lenore?
100
This is why Elizabeth believes she should know about Mr. Hooper's veil.
What is because she is engaged to him?
100
This wealthy man was "happy and dauntless and sagacious"
Who is Prince Prospero?
200
Roderick Usher is worried that she may die and leave him without a companion
Who is Madeline, his twin sister.
200
The abbey symbolizes this in the story
What is safety/security?
200
The raven enters the speaker's room and sits on this.
What is a bust of Pallas, a Greek Goddess?
200
The main symbol in the story
What is the veil?
200
He's described as having a "cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous"
Who is Roderick Usher?
300
The description of the decayed trees, gray wall, and silent tarn in the setting give the story this kind of overall effect or mood.
What is gloom (or scary...)?
300
At midnight, a stranger enters the party dressed as this
What is a victim of the Red Death?
300
The poem takes place in this month and time of day.
What is bleak December and late at night?
300
"Minister's Black Veil" is a story full of symbolism that teaches a moral lesson which describes this literary term.
What is an allegory?
300
He/she "held illimitable dominion overall"
What is the Red Death?
400
Roderick dies when he discovers this
What is that he buried his sister alive?
400
It's what makes the dancers and musicians stop and think before they return to partying
What is the chiming of the ebony clock every hour?
400
An example of this literary term in the poem would be, "while I nodded nearly napping."
What is alliteration?
400
The setting of this story is a community of what religious group?
What is the Puritans?
400
"...there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within."
What is the abbey of Prince Prospero?
500
The narrator leaves when he sees this happen to the House of Usher
What is the fissure widens and the house literally crumbles
500
This moral lesson can be inferred when the narrator says, "And the Red Death held illimitable power over all."
What is death comes for all of us?
500
At the end of the poem the speaker says his soul will be lifted "nevermore." The speaker blames the raven for his loss of this.
What is hope?
500
Mr. Hooper says that everyone wears a black veil because he believes everyone has this.
What is sin?
500
"...it had separated him from cheerful brotherhood and woman's love, and kept him in that saddest of all prisons, his own heart."
Who is Mr. Hooper?