Frankenstein-Mary Shelley

Question 1

nihilistic

Answer 1

rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless.

Question 2

sublime

Answer 2

of very great excellence or beauty.

Question 3

malignity

Answer 3

the desire to see another person/thing experience pain, injury, or distress.

Question 4

abhorrence

Answer 4

a feeling of disgust.

Question 5

benevolence

Answer 5

the quality of being kind.

Question 6

innate

Answer 6

natural.

Question 7

transcend

Answer 7

become good at something near enough to an ‘impossible’ standard.

Question 8

repression

Answer 8

the action of subduing (controlling) someone or something by force.

Question 9

Faustian

Answer 9

relating to or resembling Faust, a German astronomer and necromancer reputed to have sold his soul to the Devil.

Question 10

Promethean

Answer 10

relating to or characteristic of the demigod Prometheus, especially in being rebelliously creative and innovative.

Question 11

ambiguous

Answer 11

something that has more than one obvious meaning.

Question 12

antithesis

Answer 12

the contrast of two things. e.g. two completely different people being compared.

Question 13

religious imagery

Answer 13

Something that is representational and has a religious purpose, subject or connection in literature.

Question 14

epistolary

Answer 14

the works of fiction that are written in the form of letters or other documents.

Question 15

Romanticism

Answer 15

Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

Question 16

pathetic fallacy

Answer 16

when the weather describes the mood/setting

Question 17

frame narrative

Answer 17

a story within a story, and sometimes, within another story.

Question 18

Gothic conventions

Answer 18

The stereotypical attributes of a gothic novel.

Question 19

anecdote

Answer 19

a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

Question 20

anaphora

Answer 20

the use of a word referring back to a word used earlier in a text or conversation