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Hera

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Roman Name: Juno
Symbol: Peacock
Realm: Goddess of Marriage and Childbirth

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Usually legendary narrative that presents part of the beliefs of a people or explains a practice or natural phenomenon

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Myth

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Myth originated from where

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Folk history around 400 B.C

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Zeus

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Roman Name: Jupiter
Symbol: Thunderbolt
Realm: God of the Earth and Sky

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Poseidon

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Roman Name: Neptune
Symbol: Trident
Realm: God of Sea and Horses

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Hades

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Roman Name: Pluto
Symbol: Staff and Helmet
Realm: God of the Underworld

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Athena

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Roman Name: Minerva
Symbol: Owl
Realm: Goddess of Wisdom, War, Craft

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Hephaestus

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Roman Name: Vulan
Symbol: Iron and Fireplace
Realm: God of Fire

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Ares

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Roman Name: Mars
Symbol: Weapon, armor, and vulture
Realm: God of War

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Apollo

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Roman Name: Phobeus
Symbol: lyre, tree, dolphin
Realm: God of Music and Poetry

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Artemis

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Roman Name: Diana
Symbol: bow and arrow and the moon
Realms: Goddess of Hunting and Moon. Protector of Children

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Hermes

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Roman Name: Mercury
Symbol: Winged sandals and helmet
Realm: Messenger God

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Aphrodite

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Roman Name: Venus
Symbol: Dove and Myrtle Tree
Realm: Goddess of Love and Sexual Desire

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Hestia

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Roman Name: Vesta
Symbol: Torch and Houses
Realm: Goddess of Hearth, Guardian of Houses

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Shakespeare was born where and when?

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Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564

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When did Shakespeare die?

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1616

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Shakespeare lived during what period?

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In the Renaissance, during the Elizabethan Era

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Shakespeare was so influential to that period in history that he has often been referred to as

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“The Spirit of an Age” or “The Soul of an Age”

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Who was Shakespeare wife?

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Anne Hathaway, who was 8 years older then him

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Shakespeare had how many children?

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Three children. His only son, Hamnet died at the age of 11

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Shakespeare got this ideas for his plays from where?

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Myths and Classic Literature

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Is believed to be responsible for contributing to Shakespeare’s legacy by compiling all this work into one folio after his death

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Ben Johnson

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The original Globe Theater was located where?

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Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames

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Shakespeare used the nickname _______ to refer to the Globe a Theater

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Wooden O

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Was the structure behind the stage which held dressing rooms and storage areas

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Tiring-house

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In Shakespeare’s day, female parts were played by who?

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Men or young boys

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Performance had to be held when? Why?

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During the day because they had no electricity

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The sign that a performance was to be held that was a what?

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Flag

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Shakespearean plays were divided into three categories

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Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories

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Globe Theater flags were used to advertise that the play performed that day would be a comedy. Using this flag indicated that the play would be a light subject

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White

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Globe Theater flags were used to advertise that the play performed that day would be a tragedy. Using this flag indicated that the play would be a dark subject, associated with death

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Black

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Globe Theater flags were used to advertise that the play that day would be a history. Using this flag indicated that the play would be a subject, associated with blood, as most plays based on history were

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Red

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Setting of Romeo and Juliet is where?

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Mantua

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Plot Pyramid Sequence

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  1. Exposition
  2. Rising Action
  3. Climax
  4. Falling Action
  5. Resolution
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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closet connected words

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Alliteration

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A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something

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Allusion

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A person who is opposed to struggles against or competes with another; opponent

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Antagonist

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The method used by a writer to develop a character

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Characterization

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The turning point of the action in a plot of a play or story

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Climax

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An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. Develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work

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Complication

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A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one

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Conflict

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Associated or secondary meaning or expression in addition or its explicit or primary meaning

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Connotation

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The explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of words or expression

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Denotation

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Variety of languages that is distinguished from other variates of the same language

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Dialect

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A conversation between characters in the novel

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Dialogue

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A style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words

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Diction

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Any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional conflicting, or striking interest or results

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Drama

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Irony that is inherit of speeches or a situation of drama that is understood by the audience, but not the character

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Dramatic irony

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To magnify beyond the limit of truth

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Exaggeration

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A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory

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Exposition

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Struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character, dramatic plot

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External conflict

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A short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters

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Fable

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A unbelievable or untrue story

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Fairytale

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In the plot of a story or play the action following the climax of the work that moves it toward to the end

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Falling Action

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A light, humorous play in which depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather then development of the character

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Farce

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Language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors

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Figurative Language

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An event or scene that takes place before the present time in which the narrative is inserted into chronological structure of work

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Flashback

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An easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but useful

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Flat character

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Two characters who having opposing quality

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Foil

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To show or indicated beforehand; prefigure

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Foreshadowing

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Poetry, short stories, or novels designed to thrill readers by providing mystery and blood

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Gothic Literature

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A women of distinguished courage or ability; admired for her brave acts and noble quality

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Heroine

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Obvious or intentional abbreviation

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Hyperbole

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The use of concrete details that appeal to the five senses

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Imagery

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Physiological structure within the mind of a literary or dramatic character; the resolution of which creates plot suspense

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Internal Conflict

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A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning

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Irony

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A comparison between two different things without using “like” or “as”

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Metaphor

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Overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional feeling of a work

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Mood

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A story or accounts of events, experiences or like whether true or fictitious

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Narratin

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Is the logical sequence of events that develops a story

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Plot

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A preface or introductory part of disclose, poem, or novel

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Prologue

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The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work

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Protagonist

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The humors use of words or phase so as to emphasize of suggest its different meaning

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Pun

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Series of incidents in a literary plot that builds toward the point of greatest interest

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Rising Action

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A character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated

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Round Character

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A literary work in which human vice do folly is attacked through irony

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Satire

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A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared and uses “like” and “as”

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Simile

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The act of talking while or as if alone

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Soliloquy

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Skill in or the art of writing, adapting, or staging plays

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Stagecrafts

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A particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character

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Style

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Something concrete, such as an object, action, character or scene that stands for something abstract such as a concept or idea

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Symbol

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The subject of disclosure, discussion, mediation, or composition; topic

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Theme

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Quality of character of sound

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Tone

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A literal work in which the central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end

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Tragedy

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Doesn’t want to marry him so she turns into a tree

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Apollo and Daphne

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Two lovers talking through a crack

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Pyramus and Thisbe

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2 gods go traveling and a couple gives them shelter. The gods grant them a wish, they would die together and became a tree

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Baucis and Philemon

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Are birds

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Crux and Halcyone

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A goddess that protect a man she loves while he’s sleeping

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Diana and Endymion

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Makes a deal with Hades to have his wife return to him. He turns around and loses his wife

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Orpheus and Eurydice

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Builds a sculpture and asks the gods to make her turn real

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Pygmalion

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A plot built around a dramatic mystery such as a disappearance, concealment of parentage, an unsolved crime or the miscarriage of an inheritance

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Gothic Romance

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In a gothic romance what is the atmosphere

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It’s alive with sense of danger and terror

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This environment sustains the general air of mystery and fear. Usually, an ancient castle with forbidden corridors and chambers, smell of decay and lurking figure are present

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Somber and Ominous

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Is present to discipline the heroine

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Villain

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Rebecca’s plot

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Mystery-suspense

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Rebecca: setting

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1930-England

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The primary quality of gothic literature is its emphasis on

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Mystery, vice, darkness, death, the ominous

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Action and plot predominate over characterization

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Melodramatic mode

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Is used to produce an effect of horror and mystery

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Local color

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Who is the Byronic Hero? Why?

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Maxim, because he is charming, handsome appearance causes women to fall in love with him without realizing the hidden trouble of getting involved with such an individual

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Are often haunted by the guilt of a secret act in their past

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Hero-villain

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Is symbolic to personality

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Handwriting

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Who is the Other in Rebecca

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Ben because he is separated from the rest due to his mental retardation

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What is Decay in Rebecca

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Rebecca’s body

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