<p>Name: English 2</p><p>Short Story Analysis = 75 points The Masque of the Red Death – Poe Recall. Answer the following questions about the story using complete sentences and restating the question in your answer. (2 points)</p><p>1. Why does Prince Prospero hide in his castle? </p><p>2. Describe the prince’s fortification (defense location). </p><p>3. What does the prince decide to do after the fifth or sixth month of seclusion? Why? </p><p>4. Describe the seven chambers of the castle? What is significant about the seventh one? </p><p>5. Describe the uninvited guest. </p><p>Compare/Contrast. Answer the following using complete sentences. Be sure to restate the question in your answer. (2 points)</p><p>6. Contrast life outside the palace with life inside it. </p><p>Name: English 2</p><p>7. Compare the party without the clock ringing to the party while the clock is ringing. </p><p>Interpret/Analyze. Use complete sentences to answer the following questions. Be sure to restate the question in your answer. (2 points)</p><p>8. Why does the ebony clock have such a dramatic effect on the dancers? </p><p>9. How does the description of the clock tell you what Poe meant for it to symbolize? </p><p>Characters/Characterization. Use details from the text to answer the following questions. (2 points)</p><p>10. Who is the protagonist? </p><p>11. Who is the antagonist? </p><p>12. How do you know what the protagonist is like? Is this direct or indirect characterization? </p><p>13. How do you know what the antagonist is like? Is this direct or indirect characterization? </p><p>14. Is the protagonist a round or flat character? How do you know? Name: English 2</p><p>15. Is the antagonist a round or flat character? How do you know? </p><p>16. Are there any examples of flat characters in the story? If so, who? </p><p>Point of View. Use complete sentences and restate the question in your answer.(3 points)</p><p>17. Who is telling the story? Is it told from first or third person? How do you know? </p><p>Plot Diagram. Correctly label the diagram below with the key elements of plot. Then, write a brief description of these elements from the story. (10 points)</p><p>18. Name: English 2</p><p>1. 4. 2. 5. 3. 6. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Symbols. Explain the following symbols from the story. Be sure to tell what they symbolize with details from the text for support. (2 points)</p><p>19. Prince Prospero - </p><p>20. Black room - </p><p>21. Ebony clock- </p><p>22. Unknown masquerader - </p><p>Allusions. Explain the following allusions from the short story. Tell what they are, and what Poe meant by using them in his story. (2 points)</p><p>23. Hernani - </p><p>24. Out-Heroded Herod - </p><p>OTHER LITERARY TERMS Name: English 2</p><p>Foreshadowing (2 points). Answer the following questions using complete sentences. Be sure to restate the question in your answer.</p><p>25. What was the significance of stating that the castle door was welded shut? What might this foreshadow? </p><p>26. Cite an example from the text to show that the clock’s chiming could be foreshadowing. </p><p>27. Why does Poe take time to explain the velvet room in detail? </p><p>28. Why might the revelers be afraid of the initial sight of the unknown masquerader?</p><p>Theme (2 points). Answer the following questions using complete sentences. Be sure to restate the question in your answer.</p><p>29. What might Poe be teaching us from the Prince’s attitude toward the suffering people in the community? </p><p>30. What might Poe be teaching us about death in relation to avoidance? Cite specific examples from the text to support your idea. </p><p>Name: English 2</p><p>Using Context Clues. Determine the meaning of these unknown, bolded words from the story using context clues. Write the definition on the lines provided.(1 point)</p><p>31. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. (p. 82) </p><p>32. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress. (pg. 83) </p><p>33. But, in spite of these things, it was a gay and magnificent revel. (p. 85) </p><p>34. The mask which concealed the visage was made so nearly…(p. 87) </p><p>35. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. (p. 88) </p>