Giving a personal response: A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
Giving a personal response: A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
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- In this lesson, we will evaluate and explore 'The Haunted House' and our interpretations of it. Following on from our analysis of meaning, structure and form of 'A Haunted House', you have the opportunity to develop your own critical interpretation.
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5 Questions
Q1.
Which word best describes the ghostly couple?
hilarious
terrifying
Q2.
Which of the statements below is true:
Virginia Woolf was a modernist writer who followed traditional literary forms and conventions.
Q3.
What does the narrator hear the house whispering?
"help, help, help"
"love, love, love"
Q4.
Match the text with the analysis: The fragmented dialogue "kisses without number." "Waking in the morning"
The ghosts seem content and comfortable together. They are non-threatening: always mindful of the couple sleeping in the house.
Q5.
Which of these demonstrates the correct order of language analysis:
Understand the evidence, link it to your analysis and write your focus
8 Questions
Q1.
True or false? A short story is a novel that is incomplete.
true
Q2.
True or false? Short stories are always simple.
true
Q3.
True or false? Short stories have a fully developed theme but are shorter and less elaborate than a novel.
false
Q4.
What was the name of the literary movement which Virginia Woolf belonged to?
post-modernism
romanticism
structuralism
Q5.
Which is the correct definition of the word "subvert"?
hide underneath something
return to something
Q6.
True or false? The uncanny is an uncomfortable psychological experience where a familiar thing is encountered in an unsettling or eerie context.
false
Q7.
True or false? Virginia Woolf wanted her short story to be a comedy.
true
Q8.
How does Virginia Woolf subvert some of the expectations of a ghost story?
The setting is eerie and mysterious.
There are no ghosts in the story.