Test 2, 10th Grade, II Trimester Flashcards
Name the author of the Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar A Poe
Characters of the Pit and the Pendulum
- The narrator
- The Inquisition (judges)
- General Lasalle
Pit and the Pendulum narrator’s POV
First Person
Pit and the Pendulum Genre
Horror
(Pit and the Pendulum): What is the narrator when the story begins?
Dreading death sentence
(Pit and the Pendulum): How does Poe use imagery in the 1st paragraph?
“Dreamy indeterminate hum”
(Pit and the Pendulum): what does the author use to symbolise angels in the 1st paragraph?
7 tall candles
(Pit and the Pendulum): What does he mean when he speaks of the “decent of the soul into Hades”?
A good soul on hell
(Pit and the Pendulum): what does he mean when he says he “swooned”? What are the 2 stages that one goes through when recovering from a swoon?
- Swooned: fainting
- 1 Stage: mental and spiritual
- 2 Stage: physical
(Pit and the Pendulum): Where’s the narrator taken by “tall figures”?
Down the stairs into the cell
(Pit and the Pendulum): What does he see when he first opens his eyes?
Darkness, blackness, and eternal night
(Pit and the Pendulum): What are “inquisitorial proceedings”?
Refers to the time during the inquisition when you had to confess
(Pit and the Pendulum): What is the name of the place in which this story is set?
Toledo
(Pit and the Pendulum): How did the narrator begin to examine his cell?
He held out his hands and felt around him
(Pit and the Pendulum): What caused the narrator to fall prostrate and fall asleep?
The ground was slippery, he was tired and fell asleep
(Pit and the Pendulum): How did the narrator discover the Pit?
He stumbled right before it
(Pit and the Pendulum): What was in the water that they gave him? Why do you think that they would have done this?
- They gave him drugs
- To be able of controlling him, and moving him where they needed
(Pit and the Pendulum): what was the general shape of his prison cell?
Square with a round pit in the middle
(Pit and the Pendulum): How did the narrator find himself when he awoke this time?
Bound to a wooden contraption table. His left hand and head was free.
(Pit and the Pendulum): What was the painted figure that he saw above of? What else did he see above him?
Father Time and the Pendulum
(Pit and the Pendulum): What allured the rats to him?
The meat
(Pit and the Pendulum): What kind of figurative language is the author using when he compares his heart to “the stealthy pace of a tiger”?
Metaphor with personification
(Pit and the Pendulum): How did the narrator attract the rats to his bindings?
He put the meat on the binding
(Pit and the Pendulum): How was the narrator freed? What is the irony of his sudden freedom?
The bands broke into threads after the rats bit through them.
He’s not really free.
(Pit and the Pendulum): How did they next try to kill him?
Heated up the iron walls, and they almost closed him in.
(Pit and the Pendulum): What happened to the narrator at the conclusion of the story?
He’s freed by General Lasalee. French Army invades
(The Tell-Tale Heart): Name the Author
Edgar A Poe
(The Tell-Tale Heart): Name the characters
- Narrator
- Old man
- Three Policemen
- A neighbour
(The Tell-Tale Heart): Name setting
The Old man’s house
(The Tell-Tale Heart): POV
First person
(The Tell-Tale Heart): Genre
- Horror
- Gothic Fiction
(The Tell-Tale Heart): Tones
- Dreadfully nervous
- Sad
(The Tell-Tale Heart): Symbolism: The Old Man’s Eye
- It means that the characters have issues with their “inner version”, commonly known has Ines outlook on the world.
- The eye has strange powers, because it makes the narrators blood run cold.
- It is portrayed as the “vulture eye”
(The Tell-Tale Heart): Symbolism: The Watch
-The Old man’s heart symbolises the watch because it watches and counts down the time leading up to the man’s death
(The Tell-Tale Heart): Symbolism: The Lantern
- It’s the narrator’s weapon against the Old man’s eye.
- It also suggests that sometimes there’s light hiding in the darkest places
(The Tell-Tale Heart): Symbolism: The Bed and Bedroom
- it’s used as the weapon to snuff out the old man.
- The bed is the murder weapon, its logical that the bedroom is the burial place
(The Tell-Tale Heart): Summary
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(The Oval Portrait): Name the Author
Edgar A Poe
(The Oval Portrait): Setting
19th Century Chateau in the Apennines, a mountain range in central Italy
(The Oval Portrait): Characters
- Narrator
- Pedro
- Woman in the portrait (painter’s wife)
- Painter
(The Oval Portrait): POV
First Person
(The Oval Portrait): Climax
When the story reveals that the lifelike portrait of the young lady is absorbing her vitality
(The Oval Portrait): Themes: Obsession
The artist becomes so engrossed in his work that he completely ignores his wife
(The Oval Portrait): Themes: Fatal Love
The young lady is attracted to an artist who burns with passion for his work and not her. This leads to her death
(The Oval Portrait): Themes: Submissiveness
The young lady didn’t complain to her husband about the oval portrait. She was humble and obedient
(The Oval Portrait): what does the painting mean to the narrator?
Resurrection; the painting seems to be alive
(The Oval Portrait): Why did the painter decide to paint his wife?
He was in love with her beauty and a panted to keep it forever and he knew she’ll do anything he asked for
(The Oval Portrait): Describe the place where the narrator spends the night
It was decorated with the walls covered with paintings in every nook and corner, abandoned, dark and scary
(The Oval Portrait): How does the narrator discover the portrait?
- He discovered it when he moved the light in his room because it was unsatisfactory for him, the light showed the picture that had been there.
- It was at a corner of the room the narrator was spending the night
(The Oval Portrait): Who’s the rival of the portrait’s character and why?
Art, because her husband spend all his time painting and he never payed attention to her.
(The Oval Portrait): This short story is about love, but can you say that the love is really positive?
No, because there’s no affection between them. He doesn’t give attention to her and he was just obsessed with his painting
(The Oval Portrait): What happened at the end of the story?
The wife died while he was finishing the painting and he was left alone
(The Oval Portrait): what is scary in this story?
The way the painter sucks the life out of his wife without even noticing
(The Oval Portrait): Significance of the story’s title.
The oval portrait is the principle object in the story. It is the object that took the life out of the painter’s wife
(The Oval Portrait): Did the lady of the portrait hates arts? How do we know this?
-Yes, because she wasn’t excited to be painted in a portrait. She didn’t got any attention from her husband because of his obsession with art.
(The Oval Portrait): What happens to the artist at the end of his work?
Loses his wife and regrets what he did
(Pit and the Pendulum): Setting
Spanish Inquisition in Toledo, Spain
