About Poe
Literary Terms
Poe Stories 1
Poe Stories 2
Poe Stories 3
Death in Poe Stories
100

The "Tell Tale Sock" is a really bad _______ of a poe story?  

Parody

100
Where the story takes place?  

Setting

100

What makes Roderick Usher feel better?  

Reading or Literature
100

The Narrator of this poem sleeps by the grave of his lost bride?  

Annabell Lee

100

The Raven only says this word.  

Nevermore

100

Which stories talks about burying a man under the floorboards

Tell Tale Heart

200

Name 2 of 4 common themes in Poe's stories?  

Nameless narrators, Premature burials, Heartbeats, vortex (spinning)

200

What is it called when object/things have human characteristics?   

Personification

200

This sound made the narrator tell the police what he did?  

Heart Beat

200

What is Roderick's sister's name?  

Madeline

200

Goddess of Wisdom that the Raven sits on?  

Pallas

200
In this story, the narrator kills the wife with an axe? 

Black Cat

300

Where did Poe attend college?  

University of Virginia

300

A rhyme with a word in the middle of a line and either the end of the line or middle of the next line.  

Internal Rhyme

300

In the "Black Cat"  What is the Narrators name of the FIRST cat?  

Pluto

300

What did Montressor give Fortunato to warm him up?  

Wine (alcohol)

300

In "Hop Frog"  the king and his 7 ministers loved what?  

Practical Jokes

300
In this story, the narrator suffers during the Spanish Inquisition?  

Pit and the Pendulum

400

How did Poe earn for "The Raven"

$14

400

Alliteration

Same beginning sounds (Sally Sold Sea shells).  

400

Roderick Usher suffer's from what Disease?  

Hypochondria (always thinks he is sick).  

400

Both character's in "Black Cat" and "Cask of Amontillado" were buried behind what?  

a wall

400

The Red Death is actually......

a Disease

400

This story tells of a man who gets revenge on a king?  He killed them by burning them alive.

Hop Frog

500

Poe's wife was also his _______

cousin

500

Assonance

Repetition of Vowel sounds 

500

The narrator in "The Raven" is morning his lost love name.....

Lenore

500

What are the details of the setting for the House of Usher?  

fungus, pond, eye like windows, crack down the middle.  

500

In the "Mask of the Red death" why does everyone stop what they are doing every hour?  

Weird clock chimes

500

How did Poe die?  

No one knows for sure.  

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