Frankenstein
Ppt 4 Notes:
Literary Terms
Modern Prometheus
Literary Terms
A story within
a story, within
sometimes
yet another
story, as in,
for example,
Mary
Shelley's
Frankenstein.
Relating to or
denoting the
writing of
letters or
literary works
in the form of
letters: "an
epistolary
novel".
Frame Story
Epistolary
The Frankenstein Doppleganger
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A “ghostly counterpart” of a living
person. It is someone who has similar
traits, characteristics, or possibly
physical attributes.
In the novel, there are a few characters
who are considered doppelgangers of
other characters.

Walton and Frankenstein

Frankenstein and the monster
Celebrity Dopplegangers

Doppelgangers appeared long before we had the
Internet and paparazzi, but it’s still fun to find
celebrity doppelgangers! Check these out!
Chuck Norris totally looks like Vincent Van Gogh.
Nic Cage and his doppelganger. Little is known about the man
besides that he supposedly served in the Civil War.
Ellen
DeGeneres
looks
Henryjournalist
David
Actress
Maggie Gylenhaal
looks like
like historical
Bruce
Willis greatly
resembles
WWII
General
Douglas
and
women's
rights
leader,
Rose
Wilder
Lane.
Thoreau.
Actor Shia Labeouf looks like a young Albert Einstein.
MacArthur.
Allusion
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Defined as a brief reference to a
literary work, person, event, place,
or phrase.
Allusions to literature made in
Frankenstein:
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Paradise Lost by John Milton – story of
man’s fall from innocence to painful
knowledge; Victor can be compared to
Adam, Satan, and Eve
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, like narrator,
tells story as a warning and a
confession