The Feather Pillow & The Oval Portrait Quizlet- Mrs Behrens :]

What is the ending of feather pillow?

A monster/creature was in her pillow sucking her life away like a vampire

What is a frame narrative

A story that contains another story

"A moment of motionless observation"

Alliteration

"then her sobs subsided and she stood a long while, her face hidden in the hollow of his neck not moving or speaking a word"

Alliteration

What are the symbolic roles of the main characters in the Oval Portrait as they participate in the creation and reception of art?

An informed viewer of art, an art historian and critic, an artist, and a muse

"she a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee"

Anaphora/ motif repetition

What comparison does the creature and Jordan have towards Alicia

Both weaken Alicia, sources of her suffering, and involve something concealed or hidden

Vertiginous

Causing dizziness syn: giddy, light-headed pos: adjective

What conclusion can you draw about Alicia's hallucinations

Hallucinations were caused by the creature as a product of it sucking her blood and life away

How is Jordan different from the beginning of the story? What does this tell you about his character?

He was distant and cold, but her illness has brought on more visible evidence of his care and concern. He is an extremely dedicated person

What do you think "the painter stood entranced before the work?"

He was memorized

What are the strongest feelings at the end of feather pillow

Horror and disgust

"Eternal pacing"

Hyperbole

"The tints which he spread upon the canvas were drawn from the cheeks of her who sat beside him"

Hyperbole

"Light attack of influenza"

Hyperbole/ personification

"Jordan felt the hair rise on the back of his neck"

Imagery/ idiom/ foreshadow

Example of motif

Light

Characteristics of the painter's wife

Maiden of rarest beauty, lovely than full of glee, humble, obedient, meek

"Evil was the hour when she saw and loved and wedded the painter"

Metaphor

"New waves of blood"

Metaphor

"Then she opened her mouth to scream, and pearls of sweat"

Metaphor

"They look like punctures"

Metaphor

"This is indeed life itself"

Metaphor

"Monstrous animal, a living viscous ball"

Metaphor/ personification (whole paragraph is imagery)

In the beginning of feather pillow, what does Alicia want from her husband that she doesn't get?

More tender expressions of love for her

"The lights funereally illuminated the bedroom"

Motif, relates to funeral - hyperbole (whole paragraph is imagery)

What do you think the significance of the illness being only at night is?

Night is a time of fear and anxiety due to the darkness. Monsters and supernatural forces are typically associated with night

Characteristics of the painter

Passionate, studious, austere, took glory in his work, wild, moody man

"A million-pound weight on top of her"

Personification

"Deathly silence"

Personification

"bride in his art"

Personification

"A life bleeding away day by day, hour by hour"

Personification/ foreshadowing/ anaphora/ imagery

What do you think "the tints which he spread upon the canvas were drawn from the cheeks of her who sat beside him" means

Physically taking the color away from her body

Resonance

Quality of sand - (deep, full) syn: vibration pos: Noun

Infer the word furtive

Secretive, nervous

"Frolicsome as the young fawn"

Simile

"She awakened pale as death"

Smilie

The Oval Portrait describes

Supernatural Dark Romanticism

"Stains on the pillow that look like blood"

Symbolism

How has the mood changed from the beginning of the story

The mood shifted from one minor anxiety and uneasiness to one of terror and horror

Why do you think the painter didn't notice his wife's health declining?

The painter didn't notice his wife's health declining because he's only focused on the painting

Countenance

To face

The house in which Alicia and Jordan live in, affects Alicia by intensifying her

cold shivers

Anemia

deficiency of red blood cells resulting in weakness, pallor syn: bloodless pos: noun

"Visibly moving toward death"

foreshadowing/ hyperbole

"to float in the air"

hyperbole

"veil over her former dreams"

hyperbole

Monotonous

lacking in variety, interest syn: dull, boring pos: adjective

How is Feather Pillow and Oval Portrait Dark Romanticism?

man's dark nature, evil, gothic genre, death, blood ghosts ghouls etc, subgenre of romanticism

"love nest"

metaphor

"enchanted palace"

metaphor/irony

"hot and cold shivers"

oxymoron

"Alicia's entire honeymoon gave"

personification

"hostile house, trying not to think about anything until her husband arrived each evening"

personification

"the carpet swallowed his steps"

personification

"it is not strange that she grew thin"

personification/alliteration (whole paragraph is imagery/irony)

insidiously

proceeding in gradual way with harmful affects syn: subily pos: adverb

How are their marriage like?

quiet, cold, bare, and silent

Motif

repetition of idea, word, phrase

Anthropoid

resembles ape

Crepuscular

resembling twilight (nighttime) or active in twilight pos: adjective

"live like a sleeping beauty"

smilie

"the house, whiteness of the silent patio freezes, columns and marble statues, produced the wintry impression of an enchanted palace, glacial brilliance of stucco. Unpleasant coldness, the echo of his steps"

symbolism of their marriage + whole paragraph is imagery

Clamored

to shout loudly syn: call pos: verb

Stupefied

unable to think, feel, properly syn: dazed, stunned pos: verb & adjective

Diminutive

unusually small in size syn: tiny, miniature , minute pos: adjective

Renown

well known artist, great repatation as artist