Poe
Vocabulary
Literary Elements
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100
Why does Edmund leave Sis?
to get food
100
What is being married to only one?
monogamy
100
What is the time and location of a story?
setting
100
What is the entertainment between acts of a play?
interlude
100
What is details that give hints of what is to happen?
foreshadow
200
Why is Edmund not certain that the dead woman is his Aunty Pru?
different dress
200
What is the love and pursuit of wisdom?
philsophy
200
What is the central character in the story?
protagonist
200
What is the dissection of plants and animals?
anatomy
200
What is man vs. man and man vs. self examples of?
conflict
300
What is the name of the ship in the message?
sunrise
300
What is a warning in advance?
premonition
300
What is how the author develops a character?
characterization
300
What is something tangible?
palpable
300
What is interruption in chronological order?
flashback
400
Who is the woman Dupin wants to marry?
Mrs. Whitman
400
What is a room in the church where clergy puts on their sacred clothes?
vestry
400
What is a comparison without "like" or "as"?
metaphor
400
What is relating to humans?
anthropic
400
What is excitement and anxiety of a story?
suspense
500
Where does Edmund find his mother?
mausolem
500
What is a stanza or poem of four lines?
quatrain
500
What is the opposite of what is expected?
irony
500
What is an expression of triumph?
eureka
500
What is a reference to another source?
allusion
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