Facts about Poe
The year Poe was born
What is 1809?
These are all jobs of Poe's except: Soldier, Literary Critic, Editor, Printer
What is printer?
What Poe's literary critiques/criticisms were considered to be and how were they received by others?
What is Harsh & Negatively?
The last name of Poe's foster family
What is Allan?
Phrase The Raven repeatedly says
What is "nevermore"?
Two addictions Poe likely had
What is alcoholism and gambling?
OR Drugs
Which is the type of writing did Poe not take part of: Gothic, Horror, Detective, Romance, Science Fiction
What is romance?
Short story that featured a scene that was considered too gruesome at the time (the description of a woman’s corpse that later in the story comes to life) that he had to cut some paragraphs for it to be published.
What is "Bernice"?
Edgar Allan Poe’s wife
Who is Virginia Elizabeth Poe?
“Villains!" I shrieked,"Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! here, here! - it is the beating of his hideous heart!" is from which work by Poe?
What is "Tell Tale Heart"?
Dead body that Poe saw which profoundly affected him
What is his mother?
Poe’s relationship to the girl he married, when he was 27 years old and she was only 13: His best friend, His cousin, His sister, His aunt
What is his cousin?
Author that was influenced by Edgar Allan Poe
Who is Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Lovecraft, or Bradbury?
Name of Poe’s biological mother
Who is Elizabeth Poe?
Who is Lenore?
What is the narrator in "The Raven['s]" deceased beloved, who was a "rare and radiant maiden" whose tragic death haunts him, driving his descent into madness as he's tormented by the raven.
Location and year of Poe’s death
What is Baltimore, 1849?
How much Edgar Allan Poe was initially paid for “The Raven:” $20, $100, $9, $3
What is nine dollars?
($300-$370 in todays dollars)
One of Poe's primary principles when writing.
What is: The brevity of a work of art: a long poem does not exist; it is a contradiction in terms. Everything should be read in one sitting, the longest a poem could go were 100 lines.
OR
The unity of effect: he chose an effect he wanted to create for the reader and made everything work for it.
OR
The ideal subject matter of art: he considered that the death of a beautiful woman was “the most poetical topic in the world.”
OR
Rejection of didacticism: he was a frontrunner on the idea of “art for art’s sake.”
Poe's adoptive mother's dying wish.
What is for Poe to see her dead body?
“On the pallid bust of Pallas” is from which work by Poe?
What is "The Raven"?
Number of times Edgar Allan Poe was engaged
(Bonus points for each fiancee you can name)
What is four?
Sarah Elmira Royster, Virginia Clemm, Sarah Helen Whitman, Annie Richmond.
Poe's last complete poem, one of the only poems he wrote that included the topic of love: "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," "The Bells," "Lenore"
What is "Annabel Lee"?
Three elements that were consistently featured in Poe's works.
What is: Intuition & emotion, closed environments, unknown times, unnamed characters, unreliable narrators, unnamed narrators, first person narration, dramatic irony, liminality?
Disease that killed Poe's wife
What is Tuberculosis?
Summarize what the narrator from "The Tell Tale Heart" does
What is insists he is sane but suffers from extreme nervousness. Murders an old man because of his "vulture-like" pale blue eye. Be driven mad by the sound of the victim's heart beating, even after the man's death. Confesses to the police while freaking out.