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updated 9-2Edgar
Mystery Writers of America
Award
Mrs. Billet
pages 310-337
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**Elements of Gothic
Literature**
The
story is set in bleak or remote
places
The plot involves macabre (ghoulish)
or violent incidents
Characters are in psychological
element
is often present
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Vampire
****Vocabulary pg 311
Importunate
insistent
Munificent
generous
Equivocal
abnormal
Sentience
Capacity of feeling
Obeisance
gesture of respect
Craven
Very
cowardly
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Additional Vocabulary
phantasmagoric - an exhibition or display of
optical effects and illusions pg 316
Phantasm- fantasy, dream
pallid - Lacking intensity of color or
luminousness
Wariness- guardedness, suspiciousness
Porphyrogene- a royal birth
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Additional Vocabulary
Slanderous=
spoken lies
pg 310
Legacy lasting
= record, remembrance
Tarn=
pg 314
lake
Fissure=crack
pg 316
Countenance=
face
Ennuye=
bored (French)
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Additional Vocabulary
Cadaver, cadaverous =
dead body, deadlike
pg 317
sickly, pale
Wan=
Pallor=
pale, white
ill, symptom, problem
Malady=
dull/tasteless
Insipid=
pg 318
Fantasy/dream
Phantasm=
Hypochondriac=
Dirges=
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Additional Vocabulary
Ethelred-
Hermit=
Tempest-
storm
Mace=
Emaciated-
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Ushers Inbreeding
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gun powder
Pg 324, description of Ushers madness
Narrator being affected by Ushers
behavior
7th or 8th day after the Lady Madeline
was entombed
Pacing through the apartment, heard
sounds on the staircase
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Lady Madeleine
A fierce storm raged outside,
and neither Roderick nor his
friend were able to sleep.
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Ethelred, hero
Hermit
Dragon
Mace
Walls of Gold and Silver, Shield falls
The hero of the tale was Ethelred who must
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story?
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Macabre
(ghoulish) or violent plot details
Blood upon her white robes
Some bitter struggle
Violent
And now final death agonies
Characters in physical or psychological
torment
Madeline and Roderick
The presence of a supernatural or
otherworldly element
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Superhuman energy
Usher
A person cut off from the world can fall
prey to irrational
fears and mental illness
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Poes Poetry
symbols,
topics,
and themes, writers attitude 8/29/2008 updated 9-2Mrs. Billet pages 310-337
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The Raven
Assonance-resemblance of sound, especially of
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The Raven
***The following elements contribute to the
poem's
single effect
the repetition of
words
the meter
the poet's sorrow
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The Raven
scheme, ABCBBB
His rhythm is also very structured and
unwavering.
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The Raven
Poe also used many similes, metaphors, and
examples of personification.
Simile= A figure of speech in which two
The Raven
Metaphors- One thing conceived as representing
another; a symbol
The Raven
Example of personification found in
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Additional
Dreary Dismal,Vocabulary
depressing, dull
Lore
Lesson, wisdom
EntreatingPlead
ImploreBeg
Mien Attitude
EbonyBlack
Beguiling
Charming
Conversation
Discourse
Placid Calm
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Pallas
Goddess of Wisdom
Bust
Respite
Quaff
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Relief
Drink
Bust of Pallas
(Goddess of Wisdom)
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tell me I implore
The speaker want the Raven to say whether
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Lenore is so
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2b. What is his emotional
state as
the poem begins?
The speakers emotional state
at the beginning of the poem
is sad, tired, and abstracted
(distant).
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the
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The speaker
eventually orders the
Raven to leave.
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Website Sources
http://www.studyworld.com/newsite/basementpa
pers/papers/stack10_4.html
http://www.poedecoder.com/essays/usher/
http://www.bookstove.com/Classics/Literary-
Analysis-of-the-Raven.34165
http://www.netwurx.net/~krauklis/authorpoe.ht
http://www.answers.com/topic/edgar-allan-poe
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http://www.PHSchool.com
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Websites Sources
http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC040522/shortstori
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