EDGAR ALLAN POE
"Pit & the Pendulum"
"Tell-Tale Heart"
POEMS
Poetry Elements
100
Boston, 1809.
What is where and when Poe was born?
100
Point of view - (Poe is known for this.)
What is first person narrative?
100
The narrator had 'superpower' _____________.
What is senses or hearing.
100
What seraphs means and sepulcher.
What is angels and a tomb?
100
repetition of whole lines.
What is refrain?
200
About Poe's father that really impacted his life. (2 things)
What is he was an alcoholic and abandoned Poe when he was 1 year old.
200
The narrator's punishment?
What is sentenced to death, torture in the pit and sliced by the pendulum then pushed back into the pit?
200
This story was more about: a) dying b) insanity c) supernatural
What is b) insanity?
200
"And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me."
What is a quote from "Annabel Lee"
200
dreary, weary napping and rapping
What is examples of rhyme - internal rhyme precisely.
300
About Poe's mother that really impacted his writing.
What is she died when he was 2 years old.
300
Who saved the narrator?
What is General LaSalle?
300
Describe the setting. (Poe is known for this.)
What is unknown place and time?
300
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"
What is a quote from "The Raven"
300
What is tapping and rapping.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
Poe is most famous for these two types of genres.
What is short stories and poetry.
400
Why it was important for the narrator to have hope?
What is so he didn't give up and just wait to be killed? It gave him hope and a plan.
400
The time and how many nights the narrator watched the old man.
What is midnight and 7 nights (the 8th day he killed him)?
400
The main idea for the two poems we read.
What is the man missing his beloved, soulmate, because of her death?
400
weak and weary or nodded, nearly napping
What is alliteration?
500
Description of who Poe married and what happened to her.
What is his 13 year old cousin, Virginia and she died young?
500
A list of four fears the narrator had.
What is buried alive, rats, death, unknown, torture, the pendulum, the pit, darkness
500
What made the narrator want to harm the old man.
What is his vulture eye?
500
How the narrator in "The Raven" ends up feeling?
What is depressed and crazy because he feels like he'll never see his love, Lenore, again. Nevermore.
500
When the raven says "Nevermore" in "The Raven".
What is personification.
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