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from "The Masque of the Red Death"
by Edgar Allan Poe
1- Settings that often include large, drafty old houses that have "been in the family for years"
2- An atmosphere of mystery and suspense that is enhanced by a plot containing secrets
3- A ghostly legend, an unexplainable occurrence, or a story about a horrible death or murder
4- Omens, foreshadowing, and dreams (bad dreams about something bed that is going to happen) play a role in the mysterious air of the tory
5- Highly charged emotional states like: terror, the brink of inanity, anger, impending doom, and obsessive love.
6- Supernatural events: ghosts unexplained sounds, etc.
7- Damsels in distress are frequent (sometimes to be rescued; sometimes not to be rescued)
8- Words designed to evoke images of gloom and doom.
9- The death of a man or woman in the throes of, some great passion, the obsessive nature of a man or woman in love, or excessive grief one feels upon the loss of a loved one.
10- When the eyes -of the Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image (which, with a slow and solemn movement, as if more. fully to sustain its role, stalked to and for among the waltzers) he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment with a strong, shudder either of terror or distaste; but, in the next, his brow reddened with rage.
What element of Gothic fiction do you find in
Paragraph 10 of Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"?
A. Element 6 - Supernatural events: ghosts, unexplained sounds, etc.
B. Element 7 - Damsels in distress
C. Element 4 - Omens, foreshadowing, and dreams
from "The Masque of the Red Death"
by Edgar Allan Poe
1- Settings that often include large, drafty old houses that have "been in the family for years"
2- An atmosphere of mystery and suspense that is enhanced by a plot containing secrets
3- A ghostly legend, an unexplainable occurrence, or a story about a horrible death or murder
4- Omens, foreshadowing, and dreams (bad dreams about something bed that is going to happen) play a role in the mysterious air of the tory
5- Highly charged emotional states like: terror, the brink of inanity, anger, impending doom, and obsessive love.
6- Supernatural events: ghosts unexplained sounds, etc.
7- Damsels in distress are frequent (sometimes to be rescued; sometimes not to be rescued)
8- Words designed to evoke images of gloom and doom.
9- The death of a man or woman in the throes of, some great passion, the obsessive nature of a man or woman in love, or excessive grief one feels upon the loss of a loved one.
10- When the eyes -of the Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image (which, with a slow and solemn movement, as if more. fully to sustain its role, stalked to and for among the waltzers) he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment with a strong, shudder either of terror or distaste; but, in the next, his brow reddened with rage.
What element of Gothic fiction do you find in
Paragraph 10 of Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"?
A. Element 6 - Supernatural events: ghosts, unexplained sounds, etc.
B. Element 7 - Damsels in distress
C. Element 4 - Omens, foreshadowing, and dreams