All About Poe
The Black Cat
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Raven
Important Literary Devices
100
These are the years of Poe's birth and death.
What is 1809 and1849?
100
This is the point of view that "The Black Cat" is written in.
What is first person?
100
This is the point of view that "The Tell-Tale Heart" was written in.
What is first person?
100
These are the characters in "The Raven."
What is the narrator and the raven?
100
The words nothing more and Nevermore in "The Raven" are examples of this.
What is repetition?
200
This is the state that Poe called home.
What is Virginia?
200
THis is the name of the narrator's first cat.
What is Pluto?
200
These are the characters in the story.
What is the narrator, the old man, and two police officers?
200
This is the type of poem that "The Raven" is.
What is narrative?
200
This is the definition of situational irony.
What is when something happens in the story that the reader does not expect to happen?
300
These are five possible reasons for Poe's death.
What is epilepsy, he was beat, he drank too much(quaffing), rabies, diabeties, toxic disorder, a heart attack
300
This is what the narrator does in order to hide his mudered wife's body.
What is tearing down the wall, putting the body in between the walls, and then restoring the walls?
300
These are two symbols shown in the story.
What is 1) The eye: annoyance, and 2) the heart beating while with the police officers: guilt?
300
This is the plot of this poem.
What is a man hears knocking on his door but nobody is there. He hears tapping on the window and opens it, and then a raven flies in the room. It starts talking to him and annoying his inner sole?
300
This is the definition of alliteration.
What is using the same beginning sound of words in a phrase?
400
This is the name of Baltimore's National Football League team, and how and why the football team's name was chosen.
What is the Baltimore Ravens? What is the city had a vote, and the citizens picked "The Ravens" because of Poe's story? (The names of the three Baltimore mascots are Edgar, Allan, and Poe)
400
This is how did the police officers find out about the body in the wall.
What is the narrator's second cat had hidden in the wall while the narrator was restoring the plaster and meowed loud enough to hear?
400
This is a theme from "The Tell-Tale Heart." Explain.
What is 'A human being has a pervers, wicked side-another self-that can coax him into doing evil things that have no apparant motive.' He killed a man just because he was annoyed by the man's eye?
400
This is a mood of the poem.
What is dark, mystery, horror?
400
A poem's paragraphs are referred to as.
What are stanzas?
500
These are three reasons why Poe didn't havea long and happy life.
What is he drank, gambled, died at forty, was extremely poor, and his family died when he was young?
500
These are the three references to the gallows in the story.
What is the narrator hanging his cat on a tree, the shadow of the dead cat on the narrators wall from behind the bed after the fire, and the white mark on the chest of the narrator's second cat?
500
This is the setting and plot for the story.
What is the old man's house, and the narrator was annoyed by an old man's eye, so in the night he killed the old manin the old man's house, then tried to hide him from the police but the guilt was too much for him?
500
This is who the bust the raven was sitting on was.
What is Pallas?
500
This is the definition of internal rhyming.
What is rhyming throughout lines in stanzas in poems?
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