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By: Edgar Allan Poe

THE MASK OF THE RED DEATH

EDGAR ALLAN POE

• Is an American writer who known as the father of the horror short stories.

STORY• Prince Prospero who is happy and sagacious and

dauntless, throws a masquerade ball in his castellated abbey. He invited his courtiers and maidens. But in the middle of their happiness, there was this man covered with a red mask and caught the attention of everybody; the thing that Prince Prospero did not like. So Prince Prospero tried to chase him but suddenly he knew that this man was the Red Death. Prince Prospero died together with his followers.

QUESTIONS

1. WHERE DOES THE STORY HAPPEN?

2. WHO ARE THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY?

3. WHAT ARE THE STAGES OF THE PLOT?LABEL THE TRIANGLE.

4. WHAT IS THE THEME OF THE STORY?

SYMBOLS

DEATH

BLACK DOOR

BIRTH

BLUE DOOR

Beginning of Growth

PURPLE DOOR

Spring of Life

GREEN DOOR

SUMMER OR AUTUMN

ORANGE DOOR

AGE

WHITE DOOR

DARKNESS

VIOLET DOOR

5. WHAT DID YOU LEARN ABOUT THE STORY?

MAE ANN D. FRANCISCO

III-BSED, DILIMAN COLLEGE

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