Gothic Jeopardy Author & Title Lit. Terms I Lit. Terms II Misc. Author’s Life Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Author & Title The narrator grieves alone in his chamber, when a raven flies in and lands on a statue above the door. He asks the raven if his lost love, Lenore, is in heaven. The raven replies only, “Nevermore.” Even though the narrator becomes upset and yells at the bird, it remains above his door forevermore.

$100 Answer from Author & Title What is “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe?

$200 Question from Author & Title An allegory about an arrogant prince who tries to avoid the plague by sealing up his abbey with 1,000 of his closest friends; they enjoy six months, until a “mystery guest” arrives and kills the prince, then the rest of the revelers one by one

$200 Answer from Author & Title What is “The Masque of the Red Death” by Poe?

$300 Question from Author & Title A bizarre doctor invites four elderly guests over to help with his experiment. He has a bottle full of water from the fountain of youth. He drops a withered rose in the water which becomes revitalized. The guests are invited to drink the water, but first, Heidegger advises them to write down some ground rules to prevent them from making the same mistakes again. They refuse, and when “young” again, they revert to their old ways. As they celebrate, they spill the water, then vow to travel to Florida to find the fountain of youth. Dr. Heidegger learns that he doesn’t want to be young again b/c he would not have all the experience and wisdom that he has today.

$300 Answer from Author & Title What is “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

$400 Question from Author & Title A mother and daughter live an isolated life until a shifty stranger arrives. He is manipulative and makes a deal with Mrs. Crater to wed her retarded daughter in exchange for some money and a car. He abandons his new bride at a diner when she falls asleep. Later, he says he feels an obligation to pick up hitchhikers, and picks up a boy who is apparently running away from home.

$400 Answer from Author & Title What is “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” by Flannery O’Connor?

$500 Question from Author & Title This story starts with the main character’s death, and is told as a series of flashbacks, describing her overprotective father, her troubled relationship with a working Yankee named “Homer,” his mysterious disappearance, a “smell” surrounding her house, and ultimately, the discovery of his decayed body in her bed.

$500 Answer from Author & Title What is “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner?

$100 Question from Literary Terms I The pattern of end rhyme in a poem.

$100 Answer from Literary Terms I What is rhyme scheme?

$200 Question from Literary Terms I Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry

$200 Answer from Literary Terms I What is internal rhyme?

$300 Question from Literary Terms I A story in which many of the characters, objects and events stand for abstract qualities, such as greed, or vanity

$300 Answer from Literary Terms I What is an allegory?

$400 Question from Literary Terms A style of writing in which sinister characters find themselves in bizarre situations

$400 Answer from Literary Terms I What is Southern Gothic?

$500 Question from Literary Terms I This is a whole category of literary devices, used frequently by Poe to add a musical and slightly dreamlike quality to his poems.

$500 Answer from Literary Terms I What are “sound devices?”

$100 Question from Lit. Terms II This term describes a writer’s use of hints or clues to indicate events that will occur in a story

$100 Answer from Lit. Terms II What is foreshadowing?

$200 Question from Lit. Terms II This term describes a person, place or object that has a concrete meaning in itself, and also stands for something beyond itself, such as an idea or a feeling

$200 Answer from Lit. Terms II What is a symbol?

$300 Question from Lit. Terms The excitement or tension that readers feel as they become involved in a story

$300 Answer from Lit. Terms II What is suspense?

$400 Question from Lit. Terms II The technique a writer uses to develop characters

$400 Answer from Lit. Terms II What is characterization?

$500 Question from Lit. Terms II The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words

$500 Answer from Lit. Terms II What is alliteration?

$100 Question from Miscellaneous In the allegory, “The Masque of the Red Death,” the stranger at the party represents this

$100 Answer from Miscellaneous What is “Death?”

$200 Question from Miscellaneous Prince Prospero took many precautions to avoid the plague, but in the end, he couldn’t escape his fate. This contrast between what is expected, and what happens is called

$200 Answer from Miscellaneous What is situational irony?

$300 Question from Miscellaneous The title and author from which the following summary comes: A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition is sentenced to death, and sent to a dark dungeon to await his death. He stumbles around the room in darkness and narrowly avoids falling into a pit filled with water. He later avoids death by a swinging pendulum, and falling into the pit as the fiery walls close in upon him. Just as it looks like he will die, General Lasalle bursts in and saves him.

$300 Answer from Miscellaneous What is “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe?

$400 Question from Miscellaneous Literary term that describes the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

$400 Answer from Miscellaneous What is mood?

$500 Question from Miscellaneous The boy working the counter at the diner in “TLYSMBYO” calls the sleeping Lucynell “an angel of God.” Little does she know, she will be a lot of trouble when she wakes up. This is called:

$500 Answer from Miscellaneous What is dramatic irony?

$100 Question from Author’s Life This author, originally from Salem, Massachusetts, modified his last name to distance himself from his relative, who was a judge during the Salem Witch Trials.

$100 Answer from Author’s Life Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

$200 Question from Author’s Life This author lived a tough life, characterized by the tragic losses of women he loved, alcoholism, and ultimately, a mysterious death.

$200 Answer from Author’s Life Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

$300 Question from Author’s Life This author pioneered the Southern Gothic style, along with William Faulkner. She often includes “grotesque” characters who find themselves in bizarre situations.

$300 Answer from Author’s Life Who is Flannery O’Connor?

$400 Question from Author’s Life This author liked to shuffle the events in his stories, revealing information with a series of flashbacks to add mystery to his tales. H won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.

$400 Answer from Author’s Life Who is William Faulkner?

$500 Question from Author’s Life This author is the most famous of the Gothic Authors, whose favorite subjects include, beautiful (and dead) women, insane men, live burials, physical and mental torture, and ghosts.

$500 Answer from Author’s Life Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

Final Jeopardy With your group, write the rhyme scheme for the second, third, and fourth stanzas of “The Raven.”

Final Jeopardy Answer 2nd: DBEBBB 3rd: FBGBBB 4th: HBCBBB