Show:
The Pit
The Pendulum
Suspense
Walls Heating Up
Rats Eating Bandages
100
The main symbol of evil in the story also known as "hell"
The pit
100
Rats, painted demons, and heated walls are all used by the Inquisitorial agents to do what?
Torment the prisoner
100
"Its center, and of course its greatest width, came over the yawning gulf" is an example of what literary element we discussed?
Personification
100
Telling the story in the first person point-of-view adds what to the story?
suspense
100
What is never made clear in story?
Why the narrator was condemned to death
200
When the narrator first awakens, his first thought is what?
He has been buried alive in a tomb
200
While walking towards the pit what saves him from falling in to the pit?
He trips over his robe.
200
What item does the inquisitorial agents mistake for the narrator falling into the pit?
The rock he threw down to the bottom.
200
What is the most horrific method of death according to the narrator?
falling in the pit
200
When the narrator awakes for the FIRST time what does he see? What does he do?
Nothing; it is dark. He measures the area.
300
How does the story end?
The narrator stops struggling, screams, and is rescued.
300
What item in the story symbolizes salvation?
The trumpet.
300
The Pendulum is a symbolic image of what?
The narrators approaching death
300
True or False, The story takes place during a weeks time.
False, we don't know how long the story takes place.
300
True or False; Smoke and heat filled the room, and the walls of fire began to move.
false, smoke did not fill the room.
400
How many paces did the narrator walk around the dungeon?
100
400
What are some emotions the narrator feels while watching the pendulum?
madness, fear, pleasure, frenzy
400
The narrator seems to suffer from what the most?
Not knowing what is in store for him.
400
What is the main theme of the story?
suspense
400
How does the narrator free himself from the bandages?
He rubs meat on them so the rats can chew the bandages off.
500
Who is the painted figure on the ceiling?
Father of time or The figure of time
500
What is hanging from the ceiling in place of the scythe?
A pendulum
500
Who rescues the narrator? Who does this character symbolize?
General Lasalle; He symbolizes God
500
After the narrator escapes from the pendulum what two things begin happening to the room?
The walls heat up and begin to shrink pushing the narrator away from the walls and into the pit.
500
Who are the black-robed judges?
The judges of the Roman Catholic church/Part of the spanish inguisition