Vocabulary
The word that means "a judicial inquiry to ascertain the facts relating to an incident, such as a death."
What is an inquest?
The main character's job
What is a traveling companion?
The term for what a majority of the novel takes place in as the narrator looks back on the past.
What is a flashback?
Explain three ways du Maurier built suspense.
What is lots of ominous things?
The famous short story Daphne du Maurier wrote that became a famous movie by Hitchcock.
What is "The Birds?"
What is social awkwardness?
What item leads to the destruction of the China Cupid
What are the art books?
The difference between direct and indirect characterization.
What is how information is given to the reader?
Explain three examples of how the main character misunderstood Rebecca's past in Manderley.
What is a lot of gaslighting?
The ultimate fate of Jasper.
What is surviving the fire in Frank's office?
A word that means "fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen."
What is foreboding?
The event that leads to the discovery of Rebecca's boat.
What is the shipwreck?
The definition of and one example of foreshadowing.
What is [Miss Ram-Ram's discretion]?
Explain which you think was more effective and why: the romance novel section or the suspense thriller.
What is [you all probably put the suspense thriller?]
The kind of archetypal hero we see in Maxim.
What is the Byronic Hero?
The definition of sepulcher.
What is "a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried?"
The truth of what Rebecca learned with Dr. Baker and why this was so upsetting to her?
What is she had a malformation/tumor of the uterus and did not want to die slowly?
The style of narration Rebecca is written in and how it contributes to the building of suspense.
What is first-person limited and us being unable to know anything the narrator doesn't know?
Explain at least three qualities of a Gothic novel.
What are some spooky things?
Discuss the main character's development from beginning to end.
What is a glow up just in time to lose the house?
The definition of sardonic.
What is "grimly mocking or cynical?"
The method of Rebecca's death (and what threat leads to it).
What is telling Maxim she's pregnant and goading him into killing her?
Explain the main shift in the novel between internal and external conflict.
What is the narrator feeling bad about herself vs Maxim getting away with murder?
Create a S.T.E.A.L. chart for a Rebecca character of your choice.
What is a whole lot of work?
What is [prep for the essay?]