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The 18th century was dominated by ____. It was known as the age of ____or_____. |
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logic; reason or classcism |
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Age of reason emphasizes what four things? |
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rationality, sytems of order, mankind as a whole, and order |
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When do romantic elements first start to appear? Where? |
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in germany in the late 1760s |
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_____means storm and stress and is all about extremes of emotion in response to cold rationalism |
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Romanticism arrives through _____and lyrical ballads published in 1792 by what two authors? |
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gothic novels, lyrical ballads, wordsworth and coleridge |
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Romanticism becomes firmly established in what years? It blossoms through ___, ____, and _____. |
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1820s; art, literautre, and music |
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What are six characteristics of romanticism? |
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imiagination, intuition, individuality, nature, emotion, the past |
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IMagination celebrates ____and _____. |
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creativity and the surreal |
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Imagination is also the source of ____and_____. |
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artistic vision and creativity |
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feeling and instinct over logic and scientific observation |
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_____emphasizes the diginity, worth, and possiblities of each man or woman |
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What are two examples of authors that write about the past? |
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washington irving and james fenimore cooper |
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What are the three subranches of romanticism? |
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sentimentalism, gothic, transcendentalism |
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the writer wants to evoke an emotional resoponse in the reader |
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writer wants to frighten the reader |
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Describe transcendentalism. |
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writer wants to open the reader's eyes to nature |
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Where does the term, gothic come from? |
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What was the first gothic novel? When? |
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the castle of otranto; 1764 |
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Overtime what happens to gothic? |
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it evolves into a cliche and parody |
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What are ffive gothic tropes? |
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setting, character types, the supernatural, pyschology, darkness and death |
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What are some examples of gothic settings? |
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dark corners, eerie atmosphere |
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What are some common settings in gothic? |
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castles, haunted houses, barren landscapes, |
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What are some common character types? |
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tyrants, villains, monsters, devils |
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Gothic starts as a _____but eventually moves to america. |
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Southern writers often focus on _____through gothic tropes. |
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Southern gothic emphasizes the _____. |
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Southern gothic supports what type of characters? |
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off kilter characters--freaks, outsiders |
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What is a common setting for southern gothic? |
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Result in southern gothic is often _____and/or ____. |
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Gothic and horror manifest the traditional battle between ____and____. |
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Gothic and horror demand what? |
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inspection of what we fear |
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What three things do gothic novels ask to question about ourselves? |
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our beliefs, our perceptions, our sanity |
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What are two gothic elements in the devil and tom walker? |
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deals with nature, deals with the past |
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____is the feelng created by a work of literature. |
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____is the writer's attitude to subject, characters, etc. |
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What are four moods for the fall of the house of usher? |
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dark, cramped, ominous, uncanny |
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What is the first place in the house of usher that the author uses to enhance a gothic mood? |
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What is the significance of the tarn in the fall of the house of usher? |
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in the pond, he sees the reflection of the house |
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a double---negative projection of whatever it is a double to |
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angel and devil on shoulder |
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What are two examples of doppelgangers in the fall of the house of usher? |
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the house, the brother and sister (roderick and madeline) |
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What does the house of usher represent? |
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the actual house and the usher family tree |
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What is Roderick's illness? |
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all senses are overly sensitive and this fills him with terror |
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Describe madeline's illness. |
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she is wasting away--losing strength, energy, etc. |
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How are roderick and madeline's illness different? how are they similar? |
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roderick's illness represents more of a mental deterioration, madeline's illness represents more of a physical deterioration; they are similar because they are both based on pyschomachia |
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What is rodderick painting? |
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Why do they entomb madeline in the house before they bury her? |
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they fear someone will dig her up if they bury her |
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How does madeline look when she is "dead"? |
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IN the fall of the house of usher, when is the bounadry between fantasy and reality broken? |
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when he hears the sound of cracking and ripping which is really madeline escaping her grave |
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What are two themes in the fall of the house of usher? |
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keeping something hidden you can't keep hidden, fantasy vs. reality--when you can't distinguish between the two you have reached insanity |
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In the nineteen century, society is ______. |
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In the 1820s-1880s, women are encouraged to ____. |
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What are the ultimate goals for women in the nineteenth century? |
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Barbara wrote a story called _____about womanhood. |
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What are the four key virtues relating to women? |
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religious piety, moral purity, submissiveness, domesticity |
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Women are supposed to become the new EVe. What does this mean? |
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raise children to become good christians |
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Dealing with moral piety, women are supposed to maintain ____against wilder passions of men. |
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If a woman loses chastisty, what is this saying? |
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she loses status a true woman |
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If women are to rebel against men, what is that saying? |
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they are rebelling against god too |
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Women's clothing emphasizes_____ as they wear clothing that makes it difficult to move around. |
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home is where the heart is |
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In the yellow wallpaper, what does the woman want to do? why can't she? |
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write but her husband won't let her |
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What is arguably the first mass meeting for woman's rights in america? |
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1848 seneca falls convention |
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What is post partum depression? |
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feeling of unworth, related to feeling of hatred for children |
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JOhn becomes ar representation for partriarchy as he is a _____and ____. He treats his wife like a ______. |
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doctor and husband; child |
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In the yellow wallpaper, the narrator offers ____to cure the woman. But what does she think will cure her? |
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In the yellow wallpaper, what does the rub on the floor represent? |
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Who is the woman she sees in the wallpaper? This represents a ____. |
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What is HP lovecraft's real name? |
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howard phillips lovecraft |
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Where and when was HP lovecraft born? |
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providence, rhode island-1890 |
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Lovecraft's father was troubled by ____and _____. He died due to _____. |
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hallucinations, erratic behavior; advanced syphillis |
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What troubled lovecraft during his lifetime? |
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What was the relationship to HP and his grandfather? What was his grandfather's name? |
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very close--his grandfather encouraged howard to read; whipple phillips |
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How far did HP get in school? |
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never graduated from high school |
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Lovecraft became an anglophile--what is thsi? |
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not british, but loves british things |
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Lovecraft planned on going to ___univeristy, why didn't he? |
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brown, didn't go because of his nervous breakdown in highschool |
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In 1914, HP begins publishing and gets involved in what organization? |
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united amateur press association |
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Lovecraft eventually started publisihing regularly in _____, but he was never financially successful. |
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At one point, love craft became so poor that he ______. |
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ate one meal a day, 30 cents a day |
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What is lovecraft best remembered for? |
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establishing cthulhu mythos |
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How were lovecraft's writings similar to poe's? |
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they both focus on the interior of the soul |
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HOw and when did Lovecraft die? |
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dies of intestinal cancer in 1937 |
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When was lovecraft's first collection published? |
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Who is the narrator in the outsider? |
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dead monster returning from death |
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What is the plot of the outsider? |
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the narrator is in a place where he can't escape until he climbs out of a twoer and after he climbs out he emerges on land; he walks into a party and everyones leaves and he doesn't know why and then he sees something--a mirror |
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The zombie archetype dates back to _______. |
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Where does the word zombie come from? |
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haitian voodoo "zombi"--a spirit of the dead under the control of a voodoo priest |
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When was the zombie archetype reinvented? |
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in George Romero's 1968 movie ---Night of the living dead about the vietnam war |
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What is the mood in long distance call? |
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What are some gothic tropes in long distance call? |
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the past, setting=stormy night, implied illness--crippled legs |
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What are some similarites between long distance call and the yellow wallpaper? |
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female protagonist, ill protagonist, insanity quesetionable, isolated protagonists |
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What are some similarites between long distance call and the yellow wallpaper? |
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female protagonist, ill protagonist, insanity quesetionable, isolated protagonists |
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What is the source of fear in long distance call that would not have been present 50 years ago? |
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What are five other examples of stories where technology influences fear? |
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alien technology, the matrix, the terminator, minority report, blade runner |
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What are three ways in which southern gothic is unique to american literautre? |
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relies on ironic or unusal events to guide the plot, supernatural superseded by realism more often than not, traditions and customs |
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Southern gothic uses tropes and characteristics of the gothic not just for suspense, but to_____. |
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critique and explore social and cultural values of the american south |
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Southern gothic takes classic gothic archetypes such as the monster and turns them into ____. |
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Southern gothic uses the past a source of_____. |
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A grotesque character may possess an exaggerated personality trait or characteristic for the purpose of eliciting both _____and _____in the reader. |
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What are two other definiing features of southern gothic? |
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class distinction or cast off kilter characters |
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What are five other features of southern gothic? |
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frekisheness, outsiders, imprisonment, violence, sense of place |
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In a Good Man is hard to find, the misfit doesn't have _____but when the granmother speaks to him it is a _____. |
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faith; transcending moment |
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Who kills the grandmother in a good man is hard to find? |
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What is really in the walls that Charlies hears that he think in rats in jerusalem's lot? |
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Jerusalem's lot is an _____writing. |
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What does epistlatory mean? |
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story told through series of letters |
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What are the four nicknames for the devil in the devil and tom walker? |
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old scratch, wild huntsman, black miner, and black woodman |
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What is the name of the girl who falls down the stairs and dies at Chapelwaite? |
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How does calvin die in jerusalem's lot? |
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What does de vermis mystery mean? |
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What is the sculputure in the raven? |
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What happens to the raven at the end of the poem? |
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What does the narrator hate most about he wallpaper? |
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What deformed animal was found before Charles went to jerusalem's lot? |
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Professor Baglioni was a professor of ____at the university. |
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What was the first thing that giovanni saw beatrice kill? |
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What was the name of the maid in rappaccini's daughter? |
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How did Charles kill himself? |
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What is tom walker doing in the beginning of the story? |
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taking a shortcut through the woods |
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Who is the housekeeper in the fall of the house of usher? |
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Where does the monster end up? |
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In the tell tale heart, what drives the housekeeper to turn himself in? |
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What is the devil guarding? |
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treasure of kid, the pirate |
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What causes the housekeeper to turn himself in? |
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he hears the heart beating |
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What is the saying underneath the steeple on the map of jerusalem's lot? |
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the worm that doth corrupt |
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What are three theories about what happened to madeline in the fall of the house of useher? |
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she has been raped by and/or slept with her borther, she has been turned into a vampire, she has been buried alive |
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What is the name of the story that the narrator reads to rodderick? |
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What are three doppelgangers in the fall of the house of usher? |
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the house and the reflection of the house, madeline and rodderick, the house and the family tree |
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Where is giovanni going to school? |
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What color are the large poision flowers that rappaccini's daughter cultivates? |
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What is the name of rappaccini's daughter? |
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who wrote the devil and tom walker? |
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who wrote rappaccini's daughter? |
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Who wrote the yellow wallpaper? |
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Who wrote the chancing role of womanhood? |
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Who wrote long distance call? |
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Who wrote a good man is hard to find? |
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who wrote jerusalem's lot? |
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What are four poetic elements used in the raven? |
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internal rhyme, assonance, repition, alliteration |
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What month is the raven set? |
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Who is the maiden in the raven? |
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What season is the fall of the house of usher set? |
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Roderick painted a painting of what? |
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What is the name of the poem mentioned in the fall of the house of usher? |
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Who is the hero of trist? |
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Where and when was Poe born? Who were his parents? |
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1809 in Boston; david and elizabeth arnold hopkins poe |
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Most critics agree that Poe was the real orginator of the detective fiction genre through his three _____short storeies. |
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What does find in the forest? |
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a cloven skull with an Indian tomahawk buried deep in it |
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Tom discovered the stranger was neither ____nor _____. |
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Where is the devil and tom walker set? |
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What happened to pirate Kidd? |
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What two things is tom walker well known for? |
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Who watches over the treasure in the devil and tom walker? |
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Where does Tom meet the devil? |
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Why does Tom think his wife is dead? |
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her apron is filled with a liver and a heart |
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At first the devil bargains with Tom by trying to get him to become a ______, Tom declines but he eventually agrees to be a _____. |
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The devil represents people as _____. |
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Why Tom's wife seek the devil? |
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What is the season of the yellow wallpaper? |
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The narrator of the yellow wallpaper thinks the bedroom is similar to a _____. |
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nursery for young children |
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Who is Jennie in the yellow wallpaper? |
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john's sister, housekeeper, nurse |
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JOhn threatens to send his wife to ______. |
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At the end of the yellow wallpaper, who does the narrator think is the trapped woman? |
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What happens to John at the end of the story? |
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The yellow wallpaper was first released in ______in what year? |
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new england magazine; 1891 |
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What were the central tenets of the cult of true womanhood? |
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cult of domesticity and cult of purity |
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The mysterious man in the outsider has been living in a _____. |
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The narrator gets his knowledge of the outside of the world from _____. |
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The narrator of the outsider finds a _____at the end of the staircase. |
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Where and when was Richard Burton matheson born? |
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allendale, New jersey in 1926 |
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What is the name of the protagonist in long distance call? What is the name of the nurse? The operator? |
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mrs. keene, nurse phillips, miss finch |
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at the end of long distance call, mrs. keene discovers the calls are coming from ______. |
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Where and when is jerusalem's lot set? |
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preacher's corners, maine ---1850 |
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Charles Boone arrives in what town? Who's house? |
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chapelwaite, charles' cousin's house--stephen |
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What is teh name of the nearby town in jerusalem's lot? |
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At Jerusalem's lot, Calvin and Charles find a parody of ______in the church. |
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What two ancestors does calvin find in the walls? |
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marciella and randolph boone |
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Who founded jerusalem's lot? |
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What do calvin and charles find on top of de vermis mysteris when they return to jerusalem's lot? |
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How doe Charles and Calvin die? |
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charles commits suicide; calvin is eaten by the worm |
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