Irony
Commas
Tell-Tale Heart
Simpson vs Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allen Poe
100

Saying One Thing but meaning the other 

Verbal Irony 

100

They represent the pause or break in sentence 

Commas 

100

Is the narrator unreliable or reliable? Reason for your answer 

Unreliable repeats himself and is frantic and keeps saying not mad

100

Lisa had someone help her hide the project? 

Similar vs Different 

Different 

100

Did Poe have his parents growing up 

No both died when Poe was young

200

When the reader knows something that the character does not know? 

Dramatic Irony 

200

November 17 1911 is when the greatest fraternity was created

17, 1911, 

200

Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?

He does not like his blue eye 

200

The old man dies in his story?


similar vs different

different 

200

Did Poe like college and did he graduate 

He dropped out of school because he did not like it 

300

 the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected or intended.

Situational Irony 

300

Mom is shopping for a used car that is reliable roomy and economical.

reliable, roomy,

300

Although the narrator talks about the eye what really bothers the narrator? What type of Irony is it?

The beating heart and situational Irony because at first he was bothered by the eye but it was the heart that got him. 

Daily Double 2x

300

They both feel what when they hear the beating heart.

Similar 

300

What was Poe major issue

Drinking problem 

400

Your the best class ever 

Verbal 


DAILY DOUBLE

400

Colleen loves everything about the movies so she did her research paper on the history of filmmaking.

movies,

400

How many nights did the narrator watch the old man,  and what made him act out his plot to murder the old man?

7 nights and seeing the eye

400

What Irony was it when Ralph end up winning the science fair?

Situational


Daily Double  

400

Why does Poe right alot of stories with suspense and horror 

Because his wife and family all died and he likes to right about young woman 

500

A 90 year sky diving is what type of Irony?

Situational 

500

Rubber trees the source of income for the rubber tappers were being cut down as land was cleared.

trees, tappers,

DAILY DOUBLE

500

Why was the narrator so confident that the body would not be found? 

He left no blood and cut him in the tub and placed his chair on top of the floor broad where he sat


500

Lisa tells principle what she did, Narrator tells the police what he did 

Similiar 

500

What was Poe most famous writing 

The Raven

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