Vocab
Sound words
What is onomatopoeia?
What was Poe's parents' job?
What is traveling actors?
This is the name of the narrator's first cat.
What is Pluto?
What did the narrator insist he was not?
What is crazy?
Poe is credited with helping create this genre of literature featuring crime-solving detectives.
What is horror?
Comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
How many siblings did he have?
What is 2?
The narrator removes this from Pluto.
What is his eye?
What is the trigger of the old man?
What is his blue eye?
Comparison not using like or as
What is a metaphor?
What did his foster mother die from?
What is TB?
After Pluto's death, the narrator finds a second cat with this distinctive mark.
What is a white patch on its chest?
he narrator hides the body in this location.
What is under the floorboards?
Poe's mysterious death occurred in this city.
What is Baltimore Maryland?
Use of exaggeration
What is a Hyperbole?
This tragic event happened to Poe's wife, Virginia.
What is she died of tuberculosis?
The narrator kills his wife with this object.
: What is an ax?
The narrator believes he hears this sound after the murder.
What is the beating of the old man's heart?
Poe's parents were both performers in this profession.
Traveling actors?
Human qualities
personification
Poe wrote this famous poem about a talking bird.
What is The Raven?
The police discover the wife's body because of this unexpected sound.
What is the cat's cry from inside the wall?
: This emotion causes the narrator to confess.
What is guilt?
Who was Virginia Clemm
Who was Virginia Clemm?