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Masque of the Red Death Literary Devices

Masque of the Red Death Literary Devices. Characterization: Protagonist. The main character in a literary work. Protagonist in Masque of the Red Death. Prince Prospero or Death? Why? . Characterization: Antagonist. The character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist.

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Masque of the Red Death Literary Devices

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  1. Masque of the Red Death Literary Devices

  2. Characterization: Protagonist The main character in a literary work.

  3. Protagonist in Masque of the Red Death Prince Prospero or Death? Why?

  4. Characterization: Antagonist The character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist.

  5. Antagonist in Masque of the Red Death Prince Prospero or Death? Why?

  6. Internal Conflict Conflict that seems to be within the emotion of characters. Ex: Love, anger…

  7. Internal Conflict in Masque of the Red Death • Prince Prospero dealing with the fact that he may get the Red Death • Prince Prospero struggling with doing the right thing of moving his friends to his castle • Etc…

  8. External Conflict A conflict that deals with an outside force attacking the protagonist or another character.

  9. External conflict in Masque of the Red Death • Death coming upon the people

  10. Setting Time and place of a story.

  11. Setting for Masque of the Red Death Prince Prospero’s castle

  12. Tone The writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and the subject.

  13. Tone in Masque of the Red Death Poe wants to portray a dark scene in which the reader begins to understand that Death is not something to be messed with.

  14. Allegory A story that has a theme weaved throughout the text. It’s a story that has symbols throughout to help represent this lesson.

  15. Symbol Something that stands for or represents something else

  16. Symbols in Masque of the Red Death 7 Rooms= 7 Stages of life Ebony Clock-Time

  17. Theme The central idea or insight about human life revealed by a work of literature. • A theme is NOT the same as a work’s subject, which can usually be expressed in a word or two. The theme is a revelation the writer wishes us to discover about the subject. • There is no correct way to express a theme, and sometimes a work has several themes.

  18. Themes in Masque of the Red Death You can’t escape death… Etc.

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