History of Gothic Literature
Edgar Allan Poe
Works Written by
Poe
Poe's Life as an Editor
Edgar Allan Poe's "Struggles"
100

The person who is often referred to as "The Father of Gothic Literature"

Who is Horace Walpole?

100

This city is where Edgar Allan Poe was born.

What is Boston?

100

This is an example of a melancholic poem 

What is The Raven?

100

Poe was the editor of Graham's Magazine in this US city

What is Philadelphia?

100

Poe struggled with these after his wife died

What are depression and alcoholism?

200

This person wrote, "The Monk," in 1796.

Who is Matthew Lewis?

200

After his parents died, the Allan family adopted him who resided in this city

What is Richmond?

200

The speaker of this poem kills an innocent man because of his "evil eye"

What is The Tell-Tale Heart?

200

In New York, Poe was an editor for this 

What is The Broadway Journal?

200

Poe's wife died in 1847 from this

What is tuberculosis?

300

Edgar Allan Poe's work can be categorized as this style of gothic literature.

What is New American Gothic?

300

After moving back to Virginia to be with his ill mother from England, Poe attended this college.

What is the University of Virginia?

300

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The speaker of the poem reminisces over his or her diseased wife 

What is The Raven?

300

Poe edited The Southern Literary Messenger in 1835 in this city

What is Richmond?

300

Poe died in Baltimore, Maryland in 1849 from this

What is “acute congestion of the brain"?

400

Poe added this to modernize gothic literature.

What is detective fiction?

400

Poe went by this pseudonym to enlist in the US Army

Who is Edgar Allan Perry?

400

Madeline passes away in this short story

What is "The Fall of the House of Usher"?

400

Poe was the editor for Burton's Magazine during these years

What is 1837 to 1840?

400

Poe's biological parents died before Poe was this age

What is the age of three?

500

The year in which gothic literature was created.

What is 1764?

500

Poe married this young lady in 1836

Who is Virginia Clemm?

500

This is the type of verse Poe uses in most of his poems

What is formal verse?

500

Poe published this poem while he was an editor of Graham's Magazine

What is The Tell-Tale Heart?

500

Poe had this type of problem through this childhood

What is a behavioral problem?

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