English 3 Unit 7 Test

Which was not evidence that Dupin had in solving the murders?

a motive

When planning to write a play, the author should think about the _____ and list them after the title In the text of the play.

characters' ages, and personalities, etc.

In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the perpetrator had to _____ to descend the window from the fourth floor.

have great agility

Which word characterizes the bodies of the women who were murdered in Poe's story?

mutilated

Which method did Dupin use to figure out how the perpetrators got in and out of the house?

process of elimination

In the _____ of a play, the author has to think about what the stage will look like and any props needed.

setting

When writing a play, an author has to decide what major idea or message to convey to the audience. This is called the _____.

theme

Match the correct answers for each blank. American Fiction short stories and novels entertain readers, One of the leading authors of Romanticism was (Edgar Allan Poe) who wrote mystery and detective short stories. This first detective story, (The Murders in Rue Morgue), had several testimonies, or (witness accounts), from the people who heard something or saw something about the crime. To get good evidence, the clues have to be (corroborated), or supported, by more than one person. Later, Scottish author (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) modeled his famous series Sherlock Holmes after these American detective stories. In the category of fiction novels, for example, the first American fiction novel, (Power of Sympathy) was about morality issues. Additionally, the first African-American novelist was (William Hill Brown) who wrote the novel, Clotel, about the problems of bi-racial women. Novels such as this have realistic conflicts and are called the (drama) genre. More imaginative stories were like those of the author (Washington Irving), who wrote "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Later on, the African-American artistic movement, the (Harlem Renaissance) arrived, which promoted racial (pride). However, during this time, due to industrialism and the world wars, the Modernism movement typically characterized an attitude of (pessimism). Yet, in America today, audiences have the opportunity to read stories from authors who come from all over the world and tell about different cultural experiences in the (ethnic/multicultural) genre.

- Edgar Allan Poe - "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" - witness accounts - corroborated - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Power of Sympathy - William Hill Brown - drama - Washington Irving - Harlem Renaissance - pride - pessimism - ethnic/multicultural