Story Elements
The events that take place in the story.
What is plot?
His famous short story, "Masque of the Red Death", is based off of this illness.
What is tuberculosis (or the black plague)?
This is the topic sentence in an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
This story involves a narrator and an old man with a pale blue eye.
What is "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
A comparison made using like or as.
What is a simile?
The perspective a story is being told from
What is point of view?
This is Poe's most famous literary work and gained him the most fame.
What is "The Raven"?
Grammar time - this part of speech is the action word in sentence.
What is a verb?
A greedy character that locks himself in a castle with 1000 friends.
Who is Prince Prospero?
These two poems with the same title were published by William Blake in 1789 and 1794.
What is "The Chimney Sweeper"?
A character that does not change in a story.
What is a static character?
Poe was born in this city in Massachusetts.
What is Boston?
This is the author of the young adult novel "Homecoming."
Who is Cynthia Voigt?
A black object in the 7th room of "Masque of the Red Death."
What is the ebony clock?
This literary device is what happens when something is greatly exaggerated.
What is a hyperbole?
What is the theme?
"I was a child and she was a child, in this kingdom by the sea" is a quote from this Edgar Allan Poe work.
What is "Annabel Lee"?
This is a speech in a play by William Shakespeare, and it focuses on the different stages a person goes through in life.
What is "The 7 Ages of Man" (All the World's A Stage)?
In "The Dinner Party" by Mona Gardner, this character realizes there is a cobra in the room.
Who is "The American" or "The Hostess"?
"O God! can I not save, One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem, But a dream within a dream?" is a quote from which Edgar Allan Poe poem?
What is "Dream within a Dream"?
What is the exposition?
This is the name of Poe's childhood sweetheart who he also married.
Who is Virginia Clemm?
When writing a formal essay, these two things should go in your conclusion paragraph.
What is a clincher sentence and restating your thesis?
In the beginning of "The Lottery, the children were gathering stones in a pile, which is an example of this literary device.
What is foreshadowing?
"All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players;" is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?