Wednesday, November 28 ~ Short Story #2: Masque of the Red Death

Prefixes

• peri - around
• port - carry
• post - after

Roots

• pedo - child
• ped, pod - foot
• grad, gress - step, go

Short Story #2: The Masque of the Red Death 

• EQ: What is allegory?

Journal 30

LIT NOTES ~ Add these definitions to your journals section.

• Symbol
• Allegory

The Text: "The Masque of the Red Death " by Edgar Allan Poe

• Who was Poe? What other works from Poe have you read?

SAT Vocab:

1. profuse - plentiful
2. sagacious - wise
3. voluptuous - characterized with luxury or pleasure
4. contagion - the spreading of disease
5. imperial - majestic
6. emanating - coming forth
7. sedate - calm; quiet
8. pervaded - spread throughout
9. piquancy - a pleasantly sharp or appetizing flavor
10. phantasm - a figment of the imagination; an illusion
11. cessation - ceasing or stopping
12. disapprobation - strong disapproval, usually on moral grounds
13. propriety - quality of being proper
14. tangible - something that can be touched
15. impetuosity - impulsive or rash 

Analysis:

1. The rich and powerful might build walls around their sprawling estates to block out the upsetting parts of life. What realities of life must people face no matter who they are?

2. Google search: What are the symptoms of the pneumonic plague?

3. Consider the Allegory feature. Define as many symbols as you can, bullet-point style. What is the "story below the surface" if you translate each symbol? (Include at least these: Prince Prospero, the abbey, the gate, the masquerade, the ebony clock and TIME, the winding hallway, all the different colors of rooms, & the intruder)

HW: Complete the story and Journal 30. Don't look up the answers to the allegory!!!