Symbols
What does the narrator hear in “tale-tell heart” that shows his guilty conscience?
What is strange about the Usher family history?
Likely very incestuous
Tell-tale heart opens with the line “true- nervous- very very nervous, but why will you say that I am _______”
Mad
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, “’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;— This it is and nothing more.”
The Raven
What was Fortunado dressed as in "Cask of Amontillado"?
A jester
What does the narrator see shining behind the house of usher the night it collapsed?
Blood Red Moon
Quoth the raven “_________”
Nevermore
The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty. The windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor as to be altogether inaccessible from within...The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality to the scene. I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all.
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
Why does the narrator tell Roderick to close the windows in “House of Usher”?
The storm outside
Why was the narrator of The Oval Portrait unsettled by the painting of the woman?
She looked alive/life-like
The artist exclaimed “this is _____ indeed!” At the end of "The Oval Portrait"
Life
But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded — with what caution — with what foresight — with what dissimulation I went to work!
Tell-Tale Heart
If you walk from the first room to the last in “mask of red death,” what direction are you walking in?
East to West
What was seemingly the cause of Annabel Lee’s death?
Angels were jealous of her
How does the narrator describe Roderick’s complexion in “Fall of House of Usher”
Cadaverous
...but in the next, while he yet gazed, he grew tremulous and very pallid, and aghast, and crying with a loud voice, ‘This is indeed Life itself!’ turned suddenly to regard his beloved: — She was dead!
The Oval Portrait
Name one of the (two) symbolic names in the stories we’ve read
Fortunado or Prospero
What is the Raven representative of?
Montresor’s family motto is “No one attacks me without ______"
Impunity
A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back. For a brief moment I hesitated, I trembled. Unsheathing my rapier, I began to grope with it about the recess; but the thought of an instant reassured me. I placed my hand upon the solid fabric of the catacombs, and felt satisfied. I reapproached the wall. I replied to the yells of him who clamoured. I re-echoed — I aided — I surpassed them in volume and in strength. I did this, and the clamourer grew still.
The Cask of Amontillado