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- 1. Multiple Choice
One of the elements of Gothic literature is ___________ settings like decaying castles, haunted houses, and trapdoors or cellars.
supernatural
gloomy
isolation
fear
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of the word isolation?
in a crowd
left alone
packaging that keeps something cold
- 3. Multiple ChoiceIn Gothic novels, the conflict is often....person vs. technologyperson vs. societyperson vs. supernatural
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat is almost always true about the setting of novels in Gothic Literature?Takes place in the wild westRevolves around a castle or mansionFull of joy and happinessStraight forward with no hidden messages
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not a typically Gothic setting?
Church
Castle
Wild remote place
Shopping centre
- 6. Multiple Choice
Fill in the blank: The author uses _______ to suggest what may happen next in the story.
Forward showing
Foreshadowing
Similes
Cats
- 7. Multiple Choice
This is when the questioner knows the answer already, or an answer is not actually demanded
rhetorical question
dialogue question
rhyming question
- 8. Multiple Choice
a feeling that something bad will happen
foreshadow
foreboding
something that was before
- 9. Multiple Choice
Choose the correct difference between foreboding and foreshadowing
forebode= something great will happen &
foreshadow= something bad will happen
forebode= something interesting will happen &
foreshadow= something great will happen
forebode= something bad will happen &
foreshadow= something will happen
- 10. Multiple Choice
a feeling of thoughtful sadness, typically with no obvious cause
melancholy
melon ball
mellifluous
- 11. Multiple Choice
The mood of nature reflects the type of events or a character's emotions, in the narrative.
personification
pathetic fallacy
emotive language
pathetic writing
- 12. Multiple Choice
"Like and old wound, it gave off a faint twinge now and again". What kind of figurative language is this?
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
- 13. Multiple Choice
What is a common Gothic technique that Edgar Allan Poe incorporates in "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
anti-catholicism
fascination with dead things
body snatching
unreliable narrator
- 14. Multiple Choice
When the narrator in "The Black Cat" buries his wife in the wall, which Gothic technique used?
family curse
enclosure/claustrophobia
cemetery
revenge
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