Lit Terms Starting with "A"
A recurrent symbol in literature (for example Sherlock Holmes is a detective).
What is an archetype?
The gloomy setting where Helen Stoner and Dr. Grimesby Roylott live.
What is Stoke Moran?
Mr. Stapleton's main motivation for murdering the other Baskervilles.
What is money?
This sentence shows an example of this: “The machine drank up the green matter that flowed to the top in a slow boil”
What is personification?
Name on Legend in Arthur Conan-Doyle's writing.
What is the Baskerville curse lengend?
A story that is somehow "parallel" to something more familiar to help understand (For example the parlor walls in Fahrenheit 451 are like a flat screen tv to us).
What is an analogy?
Eerie sounds are a gothic element, and many are included in Speckled band, this was THOUGHT to be the source of the low whistling noise heard by the girls in the bedroom.
What are the gypsies?
Name one red herring in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
What is an escaped murderer is loose around Baskerville Hall?
The following is an example of this term: Montag has a sudden realization of truth about firemen and book-burning when he sees the old woman set herself and her books on fire.
What is an epiphany?
To hint at something that will happen later in the novel (Such as when Beatty was joking about Montag having an enemy in the firehouse).
What is foreshadowing?
An indirect reference to something (for example, "Mildred ran from the parlor like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius" (Bradbury, p 93)).
What is an allusion?
This is the main motivation for Dr. Grimesby Roylott to commit murder.
What is money?
Who is Sherlock Holmes and Jack Stapleton?
The Mechanical Hound is an allusion to this previous work we read in class.
What is The Hound of the Baskervilles?
fake clues that try to throw you off track (Such as people suspecting the gypsies in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band").
What are red herrings?
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of multiple words in a row (For example, "strange ship upon a shadowy sea." (Doyle, Chapter 14)).
What is alliteration?
Name one example of foreshadowing in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band".
What is the death of Julia Stoner is a foreshadowing of someone attempting to murder Helen Stoner as well?
Death is a common gothic element in novels, name 2 people who died in this novel.
Who is Jack Stapleton and Selden?
"The Mechanical Hound lived but did not live" is an example of this.
What is a paradox?
Associations that a word calls to mind in ADDITION to the dictionary meaning (for example how Conan Doyle's words makes you feel like you're in 19th century England).
What is connotation?
a story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral one (for example in Fahrenheit 451, animal-like machines are in control in the future).
What is allegory?
This is the ironic part of Dr. Roylott pouring brandy down Julia's throat while she was dying.
What is brandy speeds up the effect of the posion?
Name four gothic literary elements presented in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
What is gloomy setting, supernatural elements, dungeon-like room, the Baskerville curse?
Although it is not a gothic novel, name at least two gothic elements of Fahrenheit 451.
What is Death of Mildred and Beatty and Mildred’s attempted overdose/suicide?
Name four gothic novels.
Example: What is The Hound of the Baskervilles, Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray?