WorksheetsEdgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 18mins
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
"But the Prince Prospero was happy and dautless and sagacious" contains an example of
alliteration
ellipsis
metaphor
anaphora
Prince Prospero's thousand friends are all
wise
unmarried
healthy
unsophisticated
The long paragraph describing the seven rooms functions as a(n)
aside
digression
monologue
tirade
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
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
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
In saying that the masked figure had "out-Heroded Herod", the narrator is employing
allusion
metaphor
paradox
personification
The prince's words to the masked figure--"who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery"--are an example of
foreshadowing
hyperbole
irony
understatement
