characters | | In what way does Madeline's surrender on the night she is entombed alive contribute to the single effect Poe strives for? |
specious | | He is one of the anti-transcendentalist authors |
Mr. Hooper | | Gnerous (vocab) |
venerable | | Not showing proper respect (vocab) |
impertinent | | The raven represents the stages of _____ |
symbol | | Moby Dick has several ______ of meaning |
iniquity | | Capacity of feeling (vocab) |
harpoon | | The veil represents this feeling |
visage | | The _______'s Black Veil |
obeisance | | He is one of the anti-transcendentalist authors |
pequod | | His ____shall be lifted---nevermore! |
inscrutable | | Melville worked a long time as a sailor on this body of water |
theme | | Edgar Allan ___ |
guilt | | Not the coffee restaurant but loyal mate |
tremulous | | Captain |
grief | | Abnormal (vocab) |
Hawthorne | | He is a depressed eccentric |
craven | | Sin (vocab) |
Minister | | Shrewd; perceptive (vocab) |
Melville | | Nme or title (vocab) |
Gothic | | The _____ |
importunate | | Seeming to be good or sound without actually being so (vocab) |
sentience | | Curses (vocab) |
allegory | | A ____________ or otherwordly element is often present in Gothic writings |
Ishmael | | Hawthorne is a descendant of these people |
Soul | | _________ in Gothic stories are in psychological and/or physical torment |
supernatural | | Unpredictable occurrence (vocab) |
foreboding | | Rodrick's twin sister |
Usher | | Intended to attract notice; showy (vocab) |
Poe | | The sermon lectured on in Hawthorne's story is about this |
poison | | "I look around me, and lo! on every ______ a Black Veil!" |
Madeline | | The Fall of the House of _____ |
vagary | | Moby Dick was easy to spot because of his tail and his _________ |
whale | | The veil is one of these literary devices |
Raven | | This person wears a veil |
secretsins | | Stubbornness (vocab) |
anomalous | | A story with both a literal and a symbolic meaning |
obstinacy | | Gothic style is set in bleak or ______ places |
waggery | | Unyieldingly (vocab) |
nevermore | | Gesture of respect (vocab) |
Starbuck | | Mischievous humor (vocab) |
appellation | | Gothic style plots involve _______ or violent incidents |
Cousin | | Moby Dick is this type of mammal |
macabre | | Poe married his first ______ |
Lenore | | It is a central message revealed by a literary work and is often expressed through the use of symbols |
Ostentatious | | Commanding respect (vocab) |
sagacious | | Not able to be easily understood (vocab) |
parable | | This is a simple, usually brief, story that teaches a moral lesson |
munificent | | Very cowardly (vocab) |
crookedjaw | | Genre that Poe exemplifies |
prescient | | A beloved who has passed away |
pertinaciously | | "Call me _______." (the narrator) |
Rodrick | | Moby Dick expresses the theme of the mysteries of _________ |
layers | | Some believed Poe died of something like this, i.e. arsenic |
existence | | Having knowledge (vocab) |
ahab | | Name of Moby's nemesis' vessel |
remote | | A bird says this all the time |
SouthPacific | | This is used to snare and kills whales |
Puritans | | Characterized by trembling (vocab) |
maledictions | | Insistent (vocab) |