Gothic Short Stories Quiz (8)

One of the elements of Gothic literature is ___________ settings like decaying castles, haunted houses, and trapdoors or cellars.

• supernatural

• gloomy

• isolation

• fear

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is the meaning of the word isolation?

• in a crowd

• left alone

• packaging that keeps something cold

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What technique is this an example of? 'The trees watched over the boy as he walked through the dark forest.'

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

In the story 'The Tell-Tale Heart', what body part of the victim did the murderer become fixated on?

• Ear

• Eye

• Nose

• Heart

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

When an author creates a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen, this is...

• Paranoia

• Suspense

• Dilemma

• Foreshadowing

A device in a narrative in which a scene that takes place in the past is inserted somewhere into the narrative.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Mystery

• Cliffhanger

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

When the narrator of the story cannot be trusted they are called a(n)...

• Unreliable narrator

• Unbelievable narrator

• First person narrator

• Second person narrator

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What are elements in a text that trigger the reader’s 5 senses?

• hyperbole
• tone 
• imagery
• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What is conflict?

• Two characters getting along.
• A struggle between two opposing forces.
• The climax in a story.
• Part of the resolution.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

In the Tell- Tale Heart, the author builds suspense by--

• not revealing what the crime will be

• having the narrator watch the sleeping victim for seven nights in a row.

• having the narrator explain how clever he is

• describing what is done with the victim's body