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
