Unit 5 Review

Question 1

which of the elements of Gothic fiction below is a writer using in a story that begins, “once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”?

Answer 1

element 8

Question 2

which of the elements of gothic fiction below is a writer using using in a story about a movie star who is being pursued by a deranged fan

Answer 2

element 7

Question 3

incorrect vocab

Answer 3

• the old lady had avarice to stockpile boxes and boxes of her favorite cereal
• he was quite a usurer, giving away his money to help families who lost their homes

Question 4

what poetic device does Washington Irving use in the following lines from Paragraph 5 of “The Devil and Tom Walker”?
Tom had long been picking his way cautiously through this treacherous forest, stepping from tuft to tuft of rushes and roots, which afforded precarious footholds among deep sloughs, or pacing carefully, like a cat, along the prostrate trunks of trees, startled now and then by the sudden screaming of the bittern

Answer 4

simile

Question 5

which of the elements of Gothic fiction does the following passage from the Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker” contain from paragraph 59: Some say that Tom grew a little crack-brained in his old days, and that, fancying his end approaching, he had his horse new shod, saddled, and bridled, and buried with his feet uppermost; …the authentic old legend, which closes his story in the following manner…

Answer 5

element 3 - a ghostly legend

Question 6

which of the elements of Gothic fiction does the following passage from the Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker” contain from paragraph 36: She must have died game, however; for it is said Tom noticed many prints of cloven feet deeply stamped about the tree, and found handfuls of hair, that looked as if they had been plucked from the coarse black shock of the woodsman

Answer 6

element 9 - the death of a man or woman in the throes of some great passion

Question 7

incorrect vocab

Answer 7

• most people don’t consider respite acceptable or polite in public
• the old building was beguiling; we walked by and didn’t even notice it

Question 8

the narrator in “the raven” asks the Raven

Answer 8

if in paradise he shall again see his Lenore

Question 9

when Poe describes the bust of Pallas as “pallid” or “colorless” in Line 104 of “The Raven”, whereas, earlier in the poem he described it as “placid”, he is symbolizing

Answer 9

that in this experience wisdom had “paled” or had lost its power and relevance

Question 10

what element of gothic literature is evident in the following lines from “The Raven?” lines 25-26: Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

Answer 10

element 4 – omens, foreshadowing, and dreams

Question 11

what element of gothic literature is evident in the following lines from “The Raven?” lines 9-10: Eagerly i wished the morrow; -vainly I had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -

Answer 11

element 9 – excessive grief

Question 12

in “The Masque of the Red Death,” the ebony clock in the last room symbolizes

Answer 12

the passing of time until death