About Bronte
Characters & Plot
Narrative Technique
Literary Devices
Vocab/Characters
100
The place where Emily Bronte grew up
What is the moors of (Haworth) Yorkshire, England?
100
The cause of Hindley's downward spiral into drinking and gambling
What is the death of Francis?
100
The basic type of point-of-view in Wuthering Heights used by all of the various narrators.
What is first-person narration?
100
This literary term denotes a mysterious character, like Heathcliff, who is "mad, bad, and dangerous to know."
What is a Byronic or Satanic hero?
100
The least sanguine and least salubrious of the third-generation characters.
Who is Linton Heathcliff?
200
The year Wuthering Heights was published
What is 1847?
200
The reason Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights for a mysterious absence of three years
What is the result of overhearing Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him?
200
The narrative role played by Mr. Lockwood (who simulates the reader's experience).
What is frame narrator?
200
This type of literature is characterized by elevation of individuality, emotional freedom, and the supernatural.
What is Gothic-Romantic literature?
200
This slovenly character, who always screws up his physiognomy and utters tiresome imprecations, is used specifically by Bronte to highlight the theme of religious hypocrisy.
Who is Joseph?
300
The profession of Bronte's father, Patrick Bronte
What is church rector?
300
The way in which Heathcliff becomes master or owner of The Heights
What is the result of having mortgages transferred to him in exchange for paying off Hindley's gambling debt?
300
The interior narrator (our primary source of information)
What is Nelly or Ellen Dean?
300
Heathcliff's literary relationship to Edgar Linton, which is opposite in every possible manner (physical, behavioral, and societal), is captured by this term.
What is a foil?
300
This normally-winsome character turns lachrymose and then saturnine following the painful immolation of her "love notes" (bathos-ridden, at best) to a conflagration.
Who is the second Cathy?
400
Emily Bronte's pseudonym or pen-name
What is Ellis Bell?
400
the character (other than Heathcliff) who Hareton most closely resembles in physical appearance
Who is Catherine Earnshaw (his aunt)?
400
A minor narration delivered by a character through dialogue, a letter, etc.
What is a teritiary narrative?
400
According to Fromberg-Schaeffer and Oates, many readers of Wuthering Heights FORGET that the novel, in design, message, and "open" and "optimistic" resolution, is part of this genre.
What is Victorian/Neoclassical literature?
400
This particularly laconic misanthropist hectors his tenant in the penetralium of his home.
Who is Heathcliff?
500
The disease that took Emily's Bronte's life at the age of 30 and also kills off several characters in her novel
What is tuberculosis (or consumption)?
500
The only character who will (symbolically) stay behind at Wuthering Heights at the end of the novel
Who is Joseph?
500
the approximate amount of time covered in the interior narrative or flashback
What is 30 years?
500
The S.O.S. technique for analyzing a quote stands for these three tasks.
What is Situate it, Observe it, Synthesize it?
500
This character exhibits extraordinary magnanimity (which we perceive as dilatory sacklessness) toward his wife until eventually demanding she abjure his nemesis.
Who is Edgar Linton?