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The author writes without the intent to make things symbolic, but the reader can draw symbols from the story

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Projected symbolism

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The Red Death it is based on a rare form on the Black Plague called ___________ plague, which attacked the blood stream

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Septicemic

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The author writes with the intent to make things symbolic or representative of something else

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Indented Symbolism

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Allegory is a story with ____ meanings, a ____ meaning and a ____ meaning

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Two; literal; symbolic

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Prince Prospero represents ______, ______, and ______. On a deeper level he represents _________.

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wealth, prosperity, and the aristocrats; man’s futile attempt to escape death

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The rooms in MORD represent the ______________.
Blue represents ______
Purple represents a transition to _______
Green represents the _____________
Orange represents ______________
White is ______
Violet is the _________
The red and black room representing the ____________________

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seven stages of life; birth, transition to royalty, growth of youth, strength and maturity, purity, last stage, death and knowledge and wisdom with age

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Name one aspect of Theory two and the seven deadly sins

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Anger - the Prince becomes angry with the uninvited guest and attacks it.

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The clock represents the __________, minute by minute

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ticking away of life

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The guess at the party was dressed as the ________

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Red Death

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He wrote several stories that hold popularity,

_______ and _______

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Washington Irving; Legend of Sleepy Hollow and

Rip Van Winkle

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It should be noted that Irving was the first American to reach _____________.

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International literary celebrity status

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In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Irving uses _____ to show how hypocritical the Puritans of this era had become.

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satire

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Greedy

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Avarice

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Washington Irving used ___________ in his work

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Stock Characters

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Stock characters are characters who represent _______________

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one human emotion or characteristics

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Toms wife is a stock character for ______

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greed

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Is a body of stories, legends, myths, ballads, songs, riddles, sayings, and other works arising out of the oral traditions of people around the globe

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Folklore

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The main character of ________ refuses to be a

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Devil and Tom Walker; slave trader

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The devil is called

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Old Scratch in Devil and Tom Walker

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Tom Walker finds a _______ tied in an apron

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heart and liver

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In _________ a man sleeps for twenty years

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Rip Van Winkle

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In _________ a character plays nine pins with little men in the mountains

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Rip Van Winkle

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The poem begins at Midnight in December

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The Raven

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Name four examples of light in the Raven

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Lenore-radiant beauty
White bust of Pallas
Lamplight
Angels

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Give three examples of darkness in the Raven

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The Raven
December at midnight
The bird’s shadow

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The narrator finds the bird to be a _________ that has come to take him away

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demonic force

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The narrator slowly loses his ability to fight against the

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darkness

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The end of this poem is a vision of the phycological effects of complete ____________________

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emotional, spiritual paralysis and despair

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There are 3 Main Characters in Fall of House of Usher…..

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Rodrick Usher
Madeline Usher
Narrator- a boyhood friend of Usher

29
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The ________ is symbolic as the embodiment of an individual

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Usher House

30
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What does Madeline Usher symbolize?

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A family secret and a dark urge

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Tales of moving from the city to the country…

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American Romanticism

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What are the 5 I’s of Romanticism

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Intuition
Imagination
Innocence
Inspiration from nature
Inner experience
33
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The ___________ took a turn toward the phycological exploration of the Human Mind

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American Gothics

34
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The most famous American Gothic was

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Edgar Allan Poe

35
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Was one of the most famous Romantic writers

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James Fenimore Cooper

36
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He wrote books about Westward expansion with the hero __________.

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James Fenimore Cooper; Natty Bumppo

37
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________ is considered the first true American Hero

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Bumppo

38
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The American Hero is…

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young, innocent and pure of purpose, has a sense of honor based not only on society’s rules but on a higher principle, has a knowledge of people and life based on deep, intuitive, understanding, loves nature and avoids towns, quests for higher truth in the natural world

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Fireside poets had….

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American settings

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Fireside Poets/Poems

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Families would read these poems aloud by the fire

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These gothic tales often used ancient settings like ______, ______, ______, that had been privy to years of sinister or supernatural events.

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castles, dungeons, or cathedrals

42
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His mother died while he was 13

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Poe

43
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He married his 13 year old ________, who later died of _____________.

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Poe; Virginia; tuberculosis

44
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Poe was a…

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Critic
Poet
Writer

45
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He believed that every character, detail and incident in the story should contribute to the overall feel of the story

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Poe; The Single Effect

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__________ are often employed by Poe

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Sound Devices

47
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The repetition of beginning consonant sounds

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Alliteration

48
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The repetition of consonant sounds

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Consonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds in words

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Assonance

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