Edgar Allan Poe
This work gave Poe immense popularity, but he only made $14.00 off of it.
What is "The Raven"?
A narrator's style of speaking.
What is voice?
The beginning of a story where the setting is introduced as well as the characters.
What is the exposition?
This man wrote "The Necklace"
"I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —"
"A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
This disease took the lives of the women that Poe loved most.
What is tuberculosis?
Narration that gives the perspective of a single character without being that character.
What is third-person-limited point of view?
The highest point of tension in a storyline.
What is the climax?
The story "The Necklace" was written in this point of view.
What is third-person-limited point of view?
"The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was not the cry of a drunken man."
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
This is the name of the literary movement that Edgar Allan Poe's work fell into.
What is American Romanticism?
The narrator knows everything about every character.
What is omniscient point of view?
The end of a story.
What is the resolution?
The character who was wealthy and kind enough to loan her necklace.
"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
The name of Montresor's victim.
Who is Fortunato?
Narrator's word choice.
What is diction?
The period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax.
What is the falling action?
The main character who felt grieved over being so poor.
Who was Mme. Loisel?
"In the cold, gloomy forest, with the wind tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling round the tree- trunks, they lay and waited for the help that would now bring release and succour to both parties."
"The Interlopers" by Saki
This is the name of Poe's first cousin/wife.
What is Virginia?
The narrator's attitude toward the characters and story.
The section of a story that leads towards its climax.
What is the rising action?
This is the setting for the story: place & date
What is Paris in the 1880s?
"He grew slightly pale, for this was exactly the amount he had been saving for a gun, intending to get a little shooting next summer on the plain of Nanterre with some friends who went lark-shooting there on Sundays."
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant