What statement best describes the theme of The Masque of the Red Death?

Answer 1

Imagery is defined as a work or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell. The use of images serves to intensify the impact of the work.

An example of the imagery Poe used is the blood-tinted panes in the seventh room

Answer 2

"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe explores the inevitability of death and the futility of trying to escape it. Through the masquerade ball held to avoid the Red Death, Poe illustrates how even the wealthy and powerful cannot outrun death.

Answer 3

The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.

It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang

…and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes, (which embrace three thousand and six hundred seconds of the Time that flies,) there came yet another chiming of the clock

Answer 4

Poe's Masque of the Red Death is probably in reference to the Bubonic Plague that spread throughout Europe during the 14th century. Originally called the "Black Death," Poe used the term Red as something more Gothic. The phrase "come like a thief in the night" is an allusion to 1 Thessalonians 5:2.

Answer 5

Rich, decadent man invites his friends to his castle to shelter from the plague. He holds a grand dance where the dancers move through rooms of different colors. Although he tried to keep the Red Death out, it came in and killed all within the castle.

Answer 6

"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death" (1842) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Answer 7

The author of The Masque of the Red Death of originally, "The Mask of the Red Death" is Edgar Allan Poe.

Answer 8

A statement that best describes the theme of "The Masque of the Red Death" is that wealth cannot protect someone from death. The short story was written by Edgar Allan Poe.