Woman in Black Escape Room

Gothic Literature Escape Room

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tHE WOMAN IN BLACK

Introduction

"Arthur Kipps is trapped in this house, doomed to wander through it until he recovers the memories of The Woman in Black.To help him find them, you must first pass all the tests and get the missing items in your inventory. Explore the house and try not to get trapped yourself too..."

Inventory

Explore the house

PatheticFallacy

First person

Full stops and capital letters

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How can the author create tension in Gothic Literature?

Castle

Shopping centre

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Haunted House

Which of the following is not typically a Gothic setting?

What techniques are used here?

Personification, imagery, adverbs

Simile, metaphor

03

Simile, personification

"Rising out of the water itself, a gaunt house of grey stone and slate roof, that gleamed steelily in the light"

What technique is used here?

04

Alliteration

Personification

Simile

"Windows were rattling everywhere and there was the sound of moaning down all the chimneys of the house and whistling through every nook and cranny"

It's not correct...

Find the key to continue

Inventory

Continue exploring the house

Point, evidence, analysis

Point, evidence,technique, analysis

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Skip this question

Paragraph, ellipsis, time, automatic

How do you write a PETA paragraph?

Which of the following is an example of a simile?

It was so misty I couldn't see

The mist overcame me

A mist like a damp,clinging cobwebby thing

The mist was a cobweb of dampness

02

What can fog symbolise in Literature?

Blurring between imagination and reality

The future

Winter

Bad weather

03

Which of the following is key Gothic vocabulary?

Scary and sad

Skip this question

Happy and sunshine

Sinister, Foreboding

04

Click the link

When you have completed the challenge, show your teacher who will give you the password for the next question...

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...One more

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You found a new item for your inventory

Continue exploring the house

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Inventory

224

Use the magnifying glass to find the code and then insert it into the typewriter.

Introduce el código secreto

Código(224)

A briefcase appeared...

Click the link...

Similes and metaphors

Foreshadowing

Tension

01

The author uses ,,,,, to suggest what might happen next in the story

Stream of consciousness

First person narrator

Unreliable narrator

02

A type of narrator who is not trustworthy

Chapter 2- A London Particular

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Chapter 1 - Christmas Eve

Chapter 5- Across the Causeway

Which of these chapters notably features juxtaposition?

A briefcase appeared...

You've recovered all the ghost's memories! Now he can finally rest and you can escape from the house!

congratulations

Back

Exit

Sure you want to go out?

You will lose all the progress so far...

Inventory

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Make sure you watch this carefully...

Oh, no. You have to complete one last task...

On holiday

To find the documents for Mrs Drablow

I don't know

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Why is Arthur going to Eel Marsh House?

You need to collect your book from the teacher. They will give you the secret code for the next question.

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Enter the password

What techniques are used here?

Imagery

Repetition

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Simile

"I did not believe in ghosts. I did not believe in ghosts"

How does the use of repetition create a gothic atmosphere?

Write the correct answer in your book

He is forgetting what he has previously said.

Shows how Kipps is desperately trying to hold on to his logcal beliefs. He is trying to convince himself but it has the opposite effect on the reader.

Proves that ghosts are not real

01

What techniques are used here?

Personification, imagery, adverbs

Simile, metaphor

03

Simile, personification

"Rising out of the water itself, a gaunt house of grey stone and slate roof, that gleamed steelily in the light"

Write the correct answer in your book

It makes the house seem human

The house itself becomes foreboding and gloomy like The Woman in Black.

It shows the house is tall and scary.

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How does the use of personification create a gothic atmosphere?

What techniques are used here?

Personification

Simile,pathetic fallacy

Juxtaposition

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"It was a mist like a damp, clinging cobwebby thing'

Suggests Arthur is caught in a trap and cannot escape

Shows there are old cobwebs

03

Shows that there is a misty fog

How does the simile create a gothic atmosphere?

Inventor

Click the link

When you have completed the challenge, show your teacher who will give you the password for the next question...

Through the posession of his wife

Through his reluctancy to talk, isolating Kipps and contributing towards the conspiracy of silence

By charging Kipps more money to take him to Eel Marsh House

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How does Mr Jerome create a sense of fear?

Your final task

Find your exercise book and a copy of the Woman in Black. You need to write a PETA paragraph. How does Susan Hill create a gothic atmosphere in the The Woman in Black?

Use your notes from today to help... Once you have finished, you must show the teacher who will give you a secret code...

How does Susan Hill create a gothic atmosphere in the The Woman in Black?

Think about:Pathetic fallacy Juxtaposition The narrator...

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