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Test 2, 10th Grade, II Trimester Flashcards

1
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Name the author of the Pit and the Pendulum

A

Edgar A Poe

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Characters of the Pit and the Pendulum

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  • The narrator
  • The Inquisition (judges)
  • General Lasalle
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Pit and the Pendulum narrator’s POV

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First Person

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Pit and the Pendulum Genre

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Horror

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(Pit and the Pendulum): What is the narrator when the story begins?

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Dreading death sentence

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(Pit and the Pendulum): How does Poe use imagery in the 1st paragraph?

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“Dreamy indeterminate hum”

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(Pit and the Pendulum): what does the author use to symbolise angels in the 1st paragraph?

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7 tall candles

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(Pit and the Pendulum): What does he mean when he speaks of the “decent of the soul into Hades”?

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A good soul on hell

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(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?

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  • Swooned: fainting
  • 1 Stage: mental and spiritual
  • 2 Stage: physical
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(Pit and the Pendulum): Where’s the narrator taken by “tall figures”?

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Down the stairs into the cell

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(Pit and the Pendulum): What does he see when he first opens his eyes?

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Darkness, blackness, and eternal night

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(Pit and the Pendulum): What are “inquisitorial proceedings”?

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Refers to the time during the inquisition when you had to confess

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(Pit and the Pendulum): What is the name of the place in which this story is set?

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Toledo

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(Pit and the Pendulum): How did the narrator begin to examine his cell?

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He held out his hands and felt around him

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(Pit and the Pendulum): What caused the narrator to fall prostrate and fall asleep?

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The ground was slippery, he was tired and fell asleep

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(Pit and the Pendulum): How did the narrator discover the Pit?

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He stumbled right before it

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(Pit and the Pendulum): What was in the water that they gave him? Why do you think that they would have done this?

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  • They gave him drugs

- To be able of controlling him, and moving him where they needed

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(Pit and the Pendulum): what was the general shape of his prison cell?

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Square with a round pit in the middle

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(Pit and the Pendulum): How did the narrator find himself when he awoke this time?

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Bound to a wooden contraption table. His left hand and head was free.

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(Pit and the Pendulum): What was the painted figure that he saw above of? What else did he see above him?

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Father Time and the Pendulum

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(Pit and the Pendulum): What allured the rats to him?

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The meat

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(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”?

A

Metaphor with personification

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23
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(Pit and the Pendulum): How did the narrator attract the rats to his bindings?

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He put the meat on the binding

24
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(Pit and the Pendulum): How was the narrator freed? What is the irony of his sudden freedom?

A

The bands broke into threads after the rats bit through them.
He’s not really free.

25
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(Pit and the Pendulum): How did they next try to kill him?

A

Heated up the iron walls, and they almost closed him in.

26
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(Pit and the Pendulum): What happened to the narrator at the conclusion of the story?

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He’s freed by General Lasalee. French Army invades

27
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(The Tell-Tale Heart): Name the Author

A

Edgar A Poe

28
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(The Tell-Tale Heart): Name the characters

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  • Narrator
  • Old man
  • Three Policemen
  • A neighbour
29
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(The Tell-Tale Heart): Name setting

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The Old man’s house

30
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(The Tell-Tale Heart): POV

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First person

31
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(The Tell-Tale Heart): Genre

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  • Horror

- Gothic Fiction

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(The Tell-Tale Heart): Tones

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  • Dreadfully nervous

- Sad

33
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(The Tell-Tale Heart): Symbolism: The Old Man’s Eye

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  • 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”
34
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(The Tell-Tale Heart): Symbolism: The Watch

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-The Old man’s heart symbolises the watch because it watches and counts down the time leading up to the man’s death

35
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(The Tell-Tale Heart): Symbolism: The Lantern

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  • 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

36
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(The Tell-Tale Heart): Symbolism: The Bed and Bedroom

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  • 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

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(The Tell-Tale Heart): Summary

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…

38
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(The Oval Portrait): Name the Author

A

Edgar A Poe

39
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(The Oval Portrait): Setting

A

19th Century Chateau in the Apennines, a mountain range in central Italy

40
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(The Oval Portrait): Characters

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  • Narrator
  • Pedro
  • Woman in the portrait (painter’s wife)
  • Painter
41
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(The Oval Portrait): POV

A

First Person

42
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(The Oval Portrait): Climax

A

When the story reveals that the lifelike portrait of the young lady is absorbing her vitality

43
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(The Oval Portrait): Themes: Obsession

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The artist becomes so engrossed in his work that he completely ignores his wife

44
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(The Oval Portrait): Themes: Fatal Love

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The young lady is attracted to an artist who burns with passion for his work and not her. This leads to her death

45
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(The Oval Portrait): Themes: Submissiveness

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The young lady didn’t complain to her husband about the oval portrait. She was humble and obedient

46
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(The Oval Portrait): what does the painting mean to the narrator?

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Resurrection; the painting seems to be alive

47
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(The Oval Portrait): Why did the painter decide to paint his wife?

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He was in love with her beauty and a panted to keep it forever and he knew she’ll do anything he asked for

48
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(The Oval Portrait): Describe the place where the narrator spends the night

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It was decorated with the walls covered with paintings in every nook and corner, abandoned, dark and scary

49
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(The Oval Portrait): How does the narrator discover the portrait?

A
  • 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
50
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(The Oval Portrait): Who’s the rival of the portrait’s character and why?

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Art, because her husband spend all his time painting and he never payed attention to her.

51
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(The Oval Portrait): This short story is about love, but can you say that the love is really positive?

A

No, because there’s no affection between them. He doesn’t give attention to her and he was just obsessed with his painting

52
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(The Oval Portrait): What happened at the end of the story?

A

The wife died while he was finishing the painting and he was left alone

53
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(The Oval Portrait): what is scary in this story?

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The way the painter sucks the life out of his wife without even noticing

54
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(The Oval Portrait): Significance of the story’s title.

A

The oval portrait is the principle object in the story. It is the object that took the life out of the painter’s wife

55
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(The Oval Portrait): Did the lady of the portrait hates arts? How do we know this?

A

-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.

56
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(The Oval Portrait): What happens to the artist at the end of his work?

A

Loses his wife and regrets what he did

57
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(Pit and the Pendulum): Setting

A

Spanish Inquisition in Toledo, Spain

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