All About Poe
This is the year and city when Poe was born.
What is 1809 and What is Boston?
Is "The Black Cat" a poem or short story?
What is a short story?
What point of view is this written in?
What is first person?
A poem's paragraphs are called...
What are stanzas?
The repeated use of an important word or phrase.
What is repetition?
What year did Poe die? List one theory about how he died.
What is 1849? (answers may vary)What is a heart attack?
This story is written in what point of view?
What is first person?
Name one symbol Poe used in "Tell-Tale Heart."
What is the eye?
"The Raven" is this type of poem.
What is narrative?
Identify internal rhyme.
What is rhyme in a line of poetry?
Poe is considered the father of what?
What is Mondern day detective stories?
The narrator believes himself to be a good person. Explain how this differs from his actual personality in the story.
What is the narrator was good before, and then becomes an alcoholic and starts abusing his wife and pets?
What does the narrator hearing the heartbeat of the old man after he's dead represent?
What is the narrators guilt?
Name two themes in "The Raven".
What is grief and insanity?
Define alliteration.
What is words that begin with the same letter?
Who did Poe marry? What was so weird about it?
Who is Virginia Clemm and she is his cousin that is 13?
Explain the irony of how the cat "sees" the narrator after its eye is cut out.
What is the narrator cut out the eye and now the cat can "see" what type of person he really is?
The narrator's belief about human nature.
What is that humans do bad things, even though they know they are bad?
The narrator's internal conflict in "The Raven".
What is he lost his love, Lenore, and is driven mad with grief?
What are the three types of irony?
What are situational, dramatic, and verbal?
Poe was an unhappy most of his life. List 3 reason why he was unhappy.
What are his parents died, he was poor his whole life, and his wife died?
What does the narrator believe the second cat symbolizes in this story?
What is the devil or death?
Briefly summarize "The Tell-Tale Heart".
What is the narrator killed the old man because of his eye. He chops the man up and hides him under the floorboards. The police come to check the house, but they find nothing. The narrator invites them to stay and chat, but the beating of the old man's heart gets louder and louder until the narrator confesses to his crime?
The reason the Baltimore Ravens got their name.
What is Poe's death in Baltimore is still a mystery, and his work is popular, so they wanted to be the Baltimore Ravens?
Define situational, dramatic, and verbal irony.
What is...(Situational is) a contrast between reality and expectation, (Dramatic is) reader knows more than the character, (Verbal is) intentional exaggeration?