4. Literary Context

Question 1

Mary
Shelley

Answer 1

The author of Frankenstein (the novel). She was born in 1797,
and wrote Frankenstein at the age of 20, after a ghost-writing
contest with fellow Romantic writers and her husband, Percy
Shelley.

Question 2

Gothic
Genre

Answer 2

Literature that contains death and horror, often contains a lot of
suspense and tension. Considered the dark side of
Romanticism.

Question 3

Science
Fiction

Answer 3

Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological
advances and major social or environmental changes.
Frankenstein was called the first true work of this genre.

Question 4

Prologue

Answer 4

separate introductory section of a literary, dramatic, or
musical work.

Question 5

Epilogue

Answer 5

a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves
as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.

Question 6

Exposition

Answer 6

writing that intends to put forward information or to explain
something the reader needs to know

Question 7

Monologue

Answer 7

a long speech by one actor in a play or film,

Question 8

Pathetic
Fallacy

Answer 8

Where nature, often the weather, mirrors the mood of the text