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What element of gothic literature is evident in the following lines from "The Raven"?
 
Line 49-54: Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly... For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door - ...With such name as Nevermore."
A. Element 7 - Damsels in distress
B. Element 5 - Highly charged emotional. states like: terror, obsessive love
C. Element 6 - Supernatural events: ghosts, unexplained sounds, etc.

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What element of gothic literature is evident in the following lines from "The Raven"?
 
Lines 97 -101: 'Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked upstarting 'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
A. Element 6 - Supernatural events: ghosts, unexplained sounds
B. Element 4 - omens, foreshadowing. and dreams.
C. Element 5 - Highly charged emotional
from "The Masque of the Red Death"
by Edgar Allan Poe
1- Settings that often include large, drafty old houses that have "been in the family for years"
2- An atmosphere of mystery and suspense that is enhanced by a plot containing secrets
3- A ghostly legend, an unexplainable occurrence, or a story about a horrible death or murder
4- Omens, foreshadowing, and dreams (bad dreams about something bed that is going to happen) play a role in the mysterious air of the tory
5- Highly charged emotional states like: terror, the brink of inanity, anger, impending doom, and obsessive love.
6- Supernatural events: ghosts unexplained sounds, etc.
7- Damsels in distress are frequent (sometimes to be rescued; sometimes not to be rescued)
8- Words designed to evoke images of gloom and doom.
9- The death of a man or woman in the throes of, some great passion, the obsessive nature of a man or woman in love, or excessive grief one feels upon the loss of a loved one.
10- When the eyes -of the Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image (which, with a slow and solemn movement, as if more. fully to sustain its role, stalked to and for among the waltzers) he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment with a strong, shudder either of terror or distaste; but, in the next, his brow reddened with rage.
 
What element of Gothic fiction do you find in
Paragraph 10 of Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"?
A. Element 6 - Supernatural events: ghosts, unexplained sounds, etc.
B. Element 7 - Damsels in distress
C. Element 4 - Omens, foreshadowing, and dreams
Elements of Gothic Fiction
1- Settings that often include large, drafty old houses that have "been in the family for years"
2- An atmosphere of mystery and suspense that is enhanced by a plot containing secrets
3- A ghostly legend, an unexplainable occurrence, or a story about a horrible death or murder
4- Omens, foreshadowing, and dreams (bad dreams about something bad that is going to happen) play a role in the mysterious air of the. story,
5- Highly charged emotional states like: terror, the brink of insanity, anger, impending doom, and obsessive love
6- Supernatural events: ghosts, unexplained sounds, etc.
7- Damsels in distress are frequent (sometimes to be rescued; sometimes not to be rescued)
8- Words designed to evoke images of gloom and doom. (The good gothic writer can make you) picture the scary scene he is trying to create in your mind.)
9- The death of a man or woman in the throes of some great passion, the obsessive nature of a man or woman in love, or excessive grief one feels upon the loss of a loved one
 
Which element of Gothic Fiction is a writer using in a story about a man searching for gold who keeps having dreams that the mine caves in on him?
A. Element 2
B. Element 7
C. Element 4

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