Poe
Usher
Raven
Literary Terms/Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
This is the city in which Poe was born.
What is Boston?
100
This is why the narrator go to see Usher
What is because Usher sent him a letter?
100
This is the person who the narrator thinks is at the door.
Who is Lenore?
100
This is an example of onomatopoeia in the following lines: “As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ‘Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, ‘tapping at my chamber door – Only this, and nothing more.”
What is rapping and tapping?
100
Gothic literature is a cross between these two genres
What is horror and romance?
200
Poe’s reputation as a critic was this.
What is fearless and insulting?
200
These are the two things the narrator notices about Madeline while she is in the coffin during the House of Usher.
What are she was blushing and smiling?
200
This is the word that the raven says.
What is Nevermore?
200
The is an example of internal rhyme in the following lines: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary”
What is weary and dreary?
200
Poe general wrote this genre of literature.
What is horror or gothic?
300
Poe married this girl and this is how he knew her.
Who is Virginia and what is they were cousins?
300
Usher is a bound slave to this.
What is his own terror or his family secret?
300
This is why the narrator becomes angry with the raven.
What is he was torturing himself with questions and the raven wasn’t giving him the answer he wanted?
300
This is the definition of the term “Equivocal”
What is more than one possible interpretation?
300
This is how much time passes between the last two stanzas of The Raven.
What are days-weeks-months?
400
This is the genre that Poe is credited for creating.
What is detective fiction?
400
This is the theme of the story.
What is secluding yourself from the world can lead to mental illness and irrational fears?
400
These are two major themes in the poem.
What is love and death?
400
This is the definition of the term “Appelation”
What is a name or title?
400
This is why the raven didn’t leave at the end of the story.
What is the raven wasn’t real?
500
These are three theories of Poe’s death.
What are (answers vary) alcoholism, beating, poison?
500
These are the three reasons that the narrator thought the noises weren’t real.
What is there was a storm outside, Usher didn’t react, and the book had the same noises.
500
These are the three questions that the narrator asks the raven.
What is ‘are you here to help me forget,’ ‘are you here to heal my heart,’ and ‘is Lenore in heaven; will I see her again?’
500
These are two examples of alliteration in the following stanza: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ‘Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, ‘tapping at my chamber door – Only this, and nothing more.”
What is weak and weary and nearly napping?
500
These are the three possible meanings behind the title of “Fall of the House of Usher.
What are the end of the family line, Usher’s death, and the destruction of the house?
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