Across
- 3. is a hero in Poe’s story. It eventually destroys humanity and symbolizes death.
- 5. is a form of poetry which tells a story
- 7. is a subgenre of literary works characterized by the ambiguous presentation of seemingly supernatural forces. Structuralist critic Tzvetan Todorov originated the concept, characterizing the fantastic as the hesitation of characters and readers when presented with questions about reality
- 9. is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object
- 10. is a beautiful woman in Poe’s last completed poem.
Down
- 1. is a disease that has a high mortality rate or a calamity with widespread and serious consequences for its victims
- 2. is a fictional character in Poe’s “Mask of the Red Death
- 4. is the state of being mortal, or susceptible to death; the opposite of immortality
- 6. the representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
- 8. is a unit within a larger poem
- 11. follows the narrators decent into madness in this Poe short story