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Gothic Literature
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100

The character that was buried alive 

Who is madeline 

100

_____________ elements are often time included in gothic literature to add to the fear and uncertainty displayed. 

What are supernatural? 

100

the name of Usher's sister? 

Who is Lady Madeline? 

100

Element of the house being described: "Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.” 

What is a crack in the house?

100

a feeling of deep sadness, typically with no cause

What is Melancholy? 

200

Location of the vault that they place madeline within?

What is directly underneath the narrators basement? 

200

________ vs. __________ is a typical trope of gothic literature. 

What is good versus evil 

200

The narrator was invited to the house through this communication. 

What is a letter? 

200

Literary Device employed in the following: “We pored together over such works as the “Ververt et Chartreuse” of Gresset; the “Belphegor” of Machiavelli; the “Heaven and Hell” of Swedenborg; the “Subterranean Voyage of Nicholas Klimm” by Holberg; the “Chiromancy” of Robert Flud, of Jean D’Indaginé, and of De la Chambre; the “Journey into the Blue Distance” of Tieck; and the “City of the Sun” of Campanella”

What is Allusion

200

A temporary stay 

what is a sojourn? 

300

Fact that the narrator learns about Usher and Madeline? 

They are Twins

300

Protaganoists of Gothic Literature are typically described as ___________.

what are anti-heros?

300

The name of the narrator

What is... he was never named

300

“Feeble gleams of encrimsoned light made their way through the trellished planes” (297). The color of the light mentioned. 

What is red?

300

Pointless or useless? 

What is futile? 

400

Name one of the specific ailments that usher suffered

What is 

- all flowers smelled horrible to him

- he could only wear clothes of a certain fabric

- he could only eat bland food 

400

Common ailment of a narrator in gothic literature 

what is psychological torment?

400

The type of narrator in our story? 

First person unreliable narrator

400

                                               

I had learned, too, the very remarkable fact, that the stem of the Usher race, all time-honored as it was, had put forth, at no period, any enduring branch; in other words, that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent, and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variation, so lain." The family is not like a tree but this plant instead. 

                                   


    

What is a vine
400

To lessen something that is bad? 

What is to alleviate? 

500

Name of the hero in the poem that the narrator read to us

Who is ethereld 

500
2 other key authors to the gothic literature movements 

Who are mary shelly and Brahm stoker 

500

The name of the poem read to us by Usher

What is The Haunted Palace? 

500

The three things noted as being wrong with Lady Madeline in this passage: "A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character were the unusual diagnosis”

What is lack of feeling, lost weight, and passing out? 

500

larger or more generous than is necessary? 

What is munificent?