About Poe
What was the common disease that took the lives of many people near to Poe?
Tuberculosis
Where the story takes place?
Setting🌄
Who helps the narrator escape the ropes underneath the swinging pendulum?
The rats. 🐀
The Narrator of this story is an alcoholic.
The Black Cat.🐈⬛
The Raven only says this word.
Nevermore📜
Which stories talks about burying a man under the floorboards?
Tell Tale Heart
Name a common theme in Poe's stories.
Guilt, sorrow, death, insanity .
What is it called when object/things have human characteristics?
Personification
This sound made the narrator tell the police what he did?
Heart Beat🫀
What was the name of the Supernatural Being holding the pendulum?
Father Time.🕰
Goddess of Wisdom that the Raven sits on?
Pallas🏰
Black Cat
Where did Poe attend college?
University of Virginia, West Point
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🎶
In the "Black Cat" What is the Narrators name of the cat?
Pluto👹🔥
What caused the narrator to murder his wife in The Black Cat?
She tried to stop him from killing the cat, so he was angry and killed her.🪓😵
How do we know the narrator is unreliable in The Pit and the Pendulum?
room moving shapes, miscalculates the measurements of the cell, constantly changing feelings about death
In this story, the narrator may have gone to Heaven at the end.
Pit and the Pendulum
How did Poe earn for "The Raven"
$14
What is alliteration?
Same beginning sounds (Sally Sold Sea shells).🧑🦳 🧾 🐚
The old man from Tell Tale Heart suffer's from what eye Disease?
Cataracts🧑🦯
Name a symbol and its meaning from "The Raven".
the raven, the bust of pallas, 🏰🐦⬛
Name a symbol and its meaning from The Black Cat.
Cat, fire, alcohol
In this story, the narrator was dreaming of his lost loved one.
The Raven
Poe's wife was also his _______
cosin 😵
What is assonance?
Repetition of Vowel sounds 🔊
What does the narrator want from the Raven?
relief from the loss of his love Lenore🖤⚰
What are the details of the setting for the setting of the Pit and the Pendulum?
Cell with a huge pit in the middle, covered in rats, see Father Time as he swings an axe pendulum, during the Spanish Inquisition 🐀🕰🪓
In the "The Tell Tale Heart" how does the narrator get caught for his crimes?
He hears a heartbeat as the police are in his home. He tears up the floor boards and reveals the old man.
How did Poe die?
No one knows for sure.