Name ____________________________________________________ Date _______________ Class _______________
“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
1. What is the central theme? Defend your claim.
2. What do the colored rooms represent? Defend your claim(s).
3. What are the various symbols, and what do they represent? Defend your claim(s).
4. What is this story an allegory for? Defend your claim.
5. Ask and answer your own interpretive question:
Using a combination of words and pictures, retell the story in five frames:
Exposition (Set-Up)
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Denouement