Vocab
Edgar Allan Poe
Black Cat
Tell Tale Heart
Poe Trivia
100

Sound words

What is onomatopoeia?


100

What was Poe's parents' job?

What is traveling actors?

100

This is the name of the narrator's first cat.

What is Pluto?

100

What did the narrator insist he was not? 

What is crazy? 

100

Poe is credited with helping create this genre of literature featuring crime-solving detectives.

What is horror?

200

Comparison using like or as

What is a simile?


200

How many siblings did he have?

What is 2?

200

The narrator removes this from Pluto.

What is his eye?

200

What is the trigger of the old man?

What is his blue eye?

300

Comparison not using like or as

What is a metaphor?

300

What did his foster mother die from?

What is TB?

300

 After Pluto's death, the narrator finds a second cat with this distinctive mark.

What is a white patch on its chest?

300

he narrator hides the body in this location.

 What is under the floorboards?

300

Poe's mysterious death occurred in this city.

What is Baltimore Maryland?

400

Use of exaggeration

What is a Hyperbole?

400

This tragic event happened to Poe's wife, Virginia.

What is she died of tuberculosis?

400

 The narrator kills his wife with this object.

: What is an ax?

400

The narrator believes he hears this sound after the murder.

 What is the beating of the old man's heart?

400

 Poe's parents were both performers in this profession.

Traveling actors?

500

Human qualities

personification

500

Poe wrote this famous poem about a talking bird.

What is The Raven?

500

 The police discover the wife's body because of this unexpected sound.

 What is the cat's cry from inside the wall?

500

: This emotion causes the narrator to confess.

What is guilt?

500

Who was Virginia Clemm

Who was Virginia Clemm?

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