Giving a personal response: A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf

English

The Short Story

True or false? A short story is a novel that is incomplete.

True or false? Short stories are always simple.

True or false? Short stories have a fully developed theme but are shorter and less elaborate than a novel.

What was the name of the literary movement which Virginia Woolf belonged to?

Which is the correct definition of the word "subvert"?

True or false? The uncanny is an uncomfortable psychological experience where a familiar thing is encountered in an unsettling or eerie context.

True or false? Virginia Woolf wanted her short story to be a comedy.

The ghosts do not seem threatening because they are focused on their love.

How does Virginia Woolf subvert some of the expectations of a ghost story?

Which word best describes the ghostly couple?

Virginia Woolf was a modernist writer who followed traditional literary forms and conventions.

Virginia Woolf was a modernist writer who tried to experiment with and subvert literary forms and conventions.

What does the narrator hear the house whispering?

The ghosts seem content and comfortable together. They are non-threatening: always mindful of the couple sleeping in the house.

The ghosts’ words flow into one another suggesting their intimate connection as they remember their life together. There is a poetic rhythm to their speech.

Match the text with the analysis: The fragmented dialogue "kisses without number." "Waking in the morning"

Understand the evidence, link it to your analysis and write your focus

Understand the text and focus, select rich evidence, link it together and write an analysis

Which of these demonstrates the correct order of language analysis:

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