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gothic or small town or country   types of setting  
place of low morals   city or civilization  
where they and the characters "escape" to   country  
single, goes on journey or quest, everyman   characteristics of hero  
what dark romantics focus on in people   guilt, sin, the mind  
city of gold   El Dorado  
ghost, death   shadow  
all that was found of Tom's wife   liver, heart  
symbolizes time, nearing death   pendulum  
Tom's job   usurer, loan shark  
original owner of treasure   Cap' Kidd  
what the cross sybolizes   his guilt and sorrow  
what Tom refused to do   trade slaves  
why Tom went to church   fear  
Tom represents   greed and corruption  
Medbourne represents   greed, get rich quick, cheat others  
Who represents vanity, conceit?   Wycherly  
Water symbolizes   life, rebirth  
Who represents sinful pleasures?   Killigrew  
corrupt politician   Gasgoine  
Reason narrator of "The Raven" was reading   to foget Lenore  
description of women in "Cross of Snow"   good, pure, religious  
has 14 lines but last two don't rhyme   Italian sonnet  
four lines, four lines, four lines, rhyming couplet   Elizabethian sonnet  
Which was more important to romanticists, logic or imagination?   imagination  
What was the historical event in "The Pit and the Pendulum"?   Spanish Inquisition  
In "Pit..." what did the hand symbolize at the end of the story?   hand of God, salvation  
In "Pit..." what are the torturers an allusion to?   Chronus, father time, grim reaper  
In "Raven" what is a question asked of the bird?   Will I see her, hold her? Is there a cure for this pain? What is your name?  
Not to be obsessed with goals or money is a message of....   "El Dorado"  
when characters or events represent something larger in a story   allegory  
a story with a religious message   parable  


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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