Boring Bumf
This activity takes readers between 20-60 minutes and is intended to be completed in one sitting.
What is reading a short story?
This is the underlying message or meaning of a work of literature.
What is the theme?
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This is the name of the visitor who comes to the home of Mr. and Mrs. White and share tales of his adventures in India.
Who is Sergeant Major Morris?
An old fashioned word for "face"
What is visage?
This is the color of the first room in Prospero's castellated abbey.
What is blue?
This person is the author of the short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment."
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
This is the item that symbolizes the fleetingness of youth.
This person is the author of the short story, "The Monkey's Paw."
Who is W. W. Jacobs?
This is the repeated vowel sound in words.
What is assonance?
Edgar Allan Poe's wife died from this disease.
What is tuberculosis?
This is the second wish that the Whites make on the monkey's paw.
What is, that Herbert will be alive again?
Having a ruddy or reddish appearance.
What is rubicund?
This is the number of knights and dames that were invited to Prospero's castellated abbey to avoid the Red Death.
What is 1,000?
This is was the author's original last name who wrote the short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment."
What is Hathorne?
These are the names of the 4 friends who Dr. Heidegger invited to his house for an experiment.
Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Gascoigne, Mr. Medbourne, and Widow Wycherly
Short stories are written using this many words.
What are 1,000-7,500 words?
This is a reference to a part of another literary work, person, event, or thing
What is an allusion?
What is Gothic Fiction?
What is, that people should not interfere with fate?
This is a form of arthritis and swelling of the joints.
What is gout?
This is what the seven rooms represent.
What are the seven stages of life?
This was the type of religion that Hawthorne did not want any part of and often criticized in his works of literature.
What is the Puritan religion?
This was Mr. Medbourne's business idea after he had consumed the water and gotten younger.
What is to bring ice to the East Indies by attaching whales to icebergs.
There are fewer of these in short stories because there is less time for them to develop over the course of the story.
What are characters?
This is the repeated consonant sound in words.
What is consonance?
This is the century that Edgar Allan Poe lived in, as well as the time that most of his literature is set.
What is the 19th century?
This is the name of the place where Herbert White works and is ultimately killed.
This is another name for a begger.
What is a mendicant?
This event caused the revelers at the party to stop what they were doing.
What is the chiming of the clock at every hour?
Hawthorne is most well known for this novel.
What is The Scarlet Letter?
This is the name of the woman who Dr. Heidegger was meant to marry five and fifty years ago.
Who is Sylvia Ward?
This author wrote a popular children's book called, Coraline.
Who is Neil Gaiman?
This is a narrative representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a hidden meaning with moral or political significance.
What is an allegory?
This was the age of Edgar Allan Poe's wife, Virginia when they married in in 1836.
What is 13 years old?
In "The Monkey's Paw," this is why Mr. White wishes for 200 pounds.
What is, to pay off the mortgage on his house?
What is pestilence?
What is black velvet?
This is the belief that divinity is spread throughout all of nature and humanity.
What is transcendentalism?
This is the allegory of the story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment."
What is that one should learn from their youthful mistakes?