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Gothic Techniques in “The Black Cat”: Keep track of which gothic techniques are used
in the story. Write the plot example next to the technique.

Story: The Black cat Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Gothic Technique Plot Example (exact line)
found the exposition

all black cats as witches in disguise.

in .

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Ancestral Curse
X
if such a thing were possible—even beyond the reach of the
infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.
"

Anti-Catholicism
by some one of whom the animal must have been
.
e

Body-Snatching cut from the tree and thrown I )

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The cat, I remembered, had been hung in a

Cemetery garden adjacent to the house. S)

I had walled the monster up within the tomb.

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The cat wife .

his
Claustrophobia/Buried Alive was
buried with
I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of
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He felt guilty
remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty cat
Guilt
"

for what he did to the .

The narrator is
for what disease is like Alcohol!
an
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unreliable
Unreliable Narrator Alcoholic therefore
,
is

Goaded by the interference into a rage more than demoniacal

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s,

Devil
e
It was a black cat—a very large one—fully as large as
Doppelganger/Double(ghost twin) Pluto, and closely resembling him in every respect
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an incarnate nightmare that I had no power to shake off

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Dreams/Nightmares
My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from
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Supernatural my body
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d The fury of a demon instantly possessed me 7)

Exorcism/possession
( C I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell
Grotesque dead upon the spot without a groan. Sl

a voice from within the tomb!—by a cry, at first muffled and broken
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Setting: Bleak, dark, spooky spooky

a voice from within the tomb!

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x

Necromancy (communicate with dead)

a
The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with
gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators 11
Revenant (return of the dead)
hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and
a

Revenge because I felt it had given me no reason of offence 11

This had probably been done with the view of

a

Somnambulism (sleepwalking) arousing me from sleep

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