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THINK!

• Daffodils
• Fruit

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The Red Masque of Death

• By Edgar Allan Poe

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New Words and Ideas

• Verbose
• -wordy
• Diction
• -Word choice
• Gothic
• -style of fiction that emphasizes the grotesque
  (distorted), mysterious, and desolate

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Vocabulary

• pestilence
• profuse
• sagacious
• eccentric
• august
• contagion
• impeded
• shrouded
• hue

• gaudy
• countenances
• sedate
• mad
• emphatic
• visage
• impetuosity
• throng
• tangible

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Exposition

• Setting
• POV
• Third Person Omniscient
• Tone
• Diction
• shrouded, folly

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Imagery
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Allegory

• a set of recognizable symbols whose meanings
  combine to convey a message
• An allegory always operates on multiple levels of
  meaning the literal elements of the plot (the
  colors of the rooms, for example) and their
  symbolic counterparts

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Setting as a Symbol

• 7 rooms
• Colors
• Blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet,
  black/ blood red
• Alignment
• Clock
• The Masquerade
• Such gatherings were based on increasingly
  elaborate allegorical pageants and triumphal
  processions celebrating marriages and other
  dynastic events of late medieval court life.

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Theme
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Theme and Allegory

• What is the allegory?
• Rooms
• Colors
• Masquerade
• What is the only presence that is not masqued?
• Cycle of life

• What is the theme?
• Life and death
• Inevitability of death
• Allusion
• thief in the night (Thessalonians 52-3)

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Day

• http//youtube.com/watch?v_MWNMQVcTZk

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