Masque of the Red Death

Masque of the Red Death

Multiple Choice

Select the best definition for SYMBOL:

• A reference to another famous artistic work (might be a painting, a play, mythology, a story from the Bible, etc)

• When a thing stands for itself and a larger concept.

• Extreme exaggeration.

• A narrative that is really a double story: the surface and a larger abstract concept like love or freedom.

Multiple Choice

Select the best definition for ALLUSION:

• A reference to another famous artistic work (might be a painting, a play, mythology, a story from the Bible, etc)

• When a thing stands for itself and a larger concept.

• Extreme exaggeration.

• A narrative that is really a double story: the surface and a larger abstract concept like love or freedom.

Multiple Choice

Select the best definition for ALLEGORY:

• A reference to another famous artistic work (might be a painting, a play, mythology, a story from the Bible, etc)

• When a thing stands for itself and a larger concept.

• Extreme exaggeration.

• A narrative that is really a double story: the surface and a larger abstract concept like love or freedom.

Multiple Select

Define "masque" as it is used in the passage:

In this story a 14th-century prince gives a costume party, a masque, to try to forget about the epidemic raging all around him.

• A face covering

• A costume party

• A disease

Open Ended

What might the number 7 symbolize? What other stories include this number?

Open Ended

List a movie or show where a color is used in a symbolic way. Explain your answer.