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Summer Reading Literary Term Review

Summer Reading Literary Term Review. “The Masque of the Red Death” By Edgar Allan Poe. Setting. The TIME and PLACE in which a story is told. What is the setting of “The Masque of the Red Death?” What specific clues are there to indicate this?. Mood.

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Summer Reading Literary Term Review

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  1. Summer Reading Literary Term Review “The Masque of the Red Death” By Edgar Allan Poe

  2. Setting • The TIME and PLACE in which a story is told. • What is the setting of “The Masque of the Red Death?” • What specific clues are there to indicate this? Mood • The atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work, partly by a description of the objects or by the style of the descriptions. • What is the mood of the story? What details of the setting contribute to this?

  3. Characterization • The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work: • Methods may include: • (1) What the character says about himself or herself • (2) What others reveal about the character • (3) Through the character's own actions • Who are the characters in the story? What do we learn about them and how do we learn this?

  4. Plot/Conflict • The structure of a story. The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. • Conflictoccurs when a character is opposed by some person or force in the story. • What are the 5 MOST IMPORTANT plot events in this story? • Between what two characters or forces is the principle conflict?

  5. Theme • The deeper substance of a literary work which gives the work unity. • The theme provides an answer to the question What is the work about? • The answer goes beyond basic plot events to a deeper significance. • What, do you think, are some themes of “The Masque of the Red Death?”

  6. Conclusion/Resolution • Also called “the Resolution," the conclusion is the point in a drama to which the entire story has been leading. • It is the logical outcome of everything that has come before it. • The conclusion stems from the nature of the characters. • What is the conclusion of this story? What do we think of it? • Why is it the “logical outcome” of the rest of the story?

  7. Simile • A comparison between two unlike things for which a basis for the relationship can be found, and which uses the words "like" or "as" in the comparison. • Find an example of a simile in the story. Personification • A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human characteristics. • Be careful: robots speaking is NOT personification because they can do this – it is NOT, therefore, a description that is not literal. • Find an example of personification in the story.

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