Gothic Literature: But is it Gothic? Identifying Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Gothic Literature? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What figure of speech is "Her skin was as white as leprosy"?
Synecdoche
Metaphor
Simile
Monologue
Q. "She felt humbled to the dust. Could not the adventure of the chest have taught her wisdom? A corner of it catching her eye as she lay, seemed to rise up in judgment against her. Nothing could now be clearer than the absurdity of her recent fancies. To suppose that a manuscript of many generations back could have remained undiscovered in a room such as that, so modern, so habitable!" uses what time of narration?
First-Person Perspective
An Unnamed Narrator
Hyperbole
Free Indirect Discourse
Q. "God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred" alludes to what text?
Milton's Lycidas
Milton's Paradise Lost
Shelley's Frankenstein
Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Q. The lines, "he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" fall into which category?
Melodramatic Hyperbole
Assonance
Free Indirect Discourse
Existentialism
Q. The lines, "If this book should ever reach Mina before I do, let it bring my good-bye. Here comes the coach!" indicate that this story is written as what form?
A satire.
A detective fiction.
An epistolary novel.
A screenplay.