Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"

Victims of the Red Death are afflicted with all of the following symptoms EXCEPT

• diarrhea

• profuse bleeding from the pores

• death within thirty minutes

• sudden dizziness

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"But the Prince Prospero was happy and dautless and sagacious" contains an example of

• alliteration

• ellipsis

• metaphor

• anaphora

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Prince Prospero's thousand friends are all

• wise

• unmarried

• healthy

• unsophisticated

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

The long paragraph describing the seven rooms functions as a(n)

• aside

• digression

• monologue

• tirade

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Some critics claim that the suite of seven chambers are an allegory of the seven ages in human life. Evidence for this allegory includes

• The chambers move from east (sunrise) to west (sunset)

• Party goers can only see one chamber at a time.

• Each chamber is lit by a torch.

• Options 1 and 2 only

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

At the striking of the ebony clock, all of the following occur EXCEPT

• The guests grow pale

• The guests cry out

• The guests stop dancing

• The musicians stop playing

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What occurs when the ebony clock chimes midnight?

• Guests enter the black chamber

• Guests return to their sleeping quarters

• The guests are at their liveliest and most frenzied

• A feeling of unease creeps through the rooms

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

In saying that the masked figure had "out-Heroded Herod", the narrator is employing

• allusion

• metaphor

• paradox

• personification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

The prince's words to the masked figure--"who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery"--are an example of

• foreshadowing

• hyperbole

• irony

• understatement

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4