Analysing language in The Tell-Tale Heart (Part 1)

Analysing language in The Tell-Tale Heart (Part 1)

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will read an extract from a very famous Gothic story 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe and start to learn the key steps needed in order to analyse language successfully. Then, we will end on a quiz exploring what you have learned.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What is the meaning of eponymous?
Correct answer: when a person gives their name to something
when two people have similar names
when two things have a similar meaning
Q2.
How is a Byronic hero a complicated character?
He acts in a benevolent manner.
He is cunning and manipulative.
Correct answer: He is psychologically tormented.
Q3.
What does the word damsel mean?
in distress
sweet lady
Correct answer: young lady
Q4.
What usually happens to the damsel in Gothic fiction?
helps the Byronic hero as partners
Correct answer: placed in a dire predicament by a villain requiring a male hero to achieve her rescue
self-sufficient and needs no-one else to help her
Q5.
What does femme fatale mean?
dangerous woman
Correct answer: fatal woman
scary woman

5 Questions

Q1.
What does Gothic as a genre often include?
Correct answer: horror, death and at times romance
lots of violence
romance and love
Q2.
What does the word 'genre' mean?
how violent the text is
Correct answer: what kind of text it is
whether the text is for children or not
Q3.
Who was the first Gothic novel written by?
Bram Stoker
Correct answer: Horace Walpole
Mary Shelley
Q4.
Which list below best describes Gothic conventions?
horror, death, must be set in a castle, has to be a ghost
romance, horror, scary animals, hero dies
Correct answer: scary setting, atmosphere of mystery and suspense, supernatural, woman in distress
Q5.
Name three typical Gothic characters.
Correct answer: Byronic hero, damsel in distress, femme fatale
siren, tyrannical male, beasts
vampire, werewolf, monster

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UnitEnglish / Gothic Literature

English