Edgar Allen Poe/Genre
The name and age of Poe’s wife
Virginia, 13
The name of the person the narrator lost
Lenore
What type of Irony is this? Fortunato is coughing very loudly. Montressor says "you have a bad cough, we should go back"
Verbal (or argued situational)
The poem seems at first to be about this.
What is love
The disease theorize the Red Death is based off of
What is the bubonic plague or tuberculosis
The year “The Raven” was published
1845
The theme of “The Raven”
What is grief and sanity
Fortunato says “I drink to the dead bodies around us!” Montresor says to Fortunato “I drink to your long life!” What is ironic about this statement?
Fortunato says he will drink to his long life, little does he know that he will not be living very long
The narrator blames these winged creatures for the death of his loved one.
What are seraphs
The symbol for hiding from the plague.
What are the masks at the masquerade
Name three elements of gothicism
dark setting, romance, supernatural forces, emotional extremes, anti-hero, female victims, visions and nightmares, madness, gloomy weather, and prophecies and curses.
The thing the Raven stands on top of, and what it means
Who is Pallas, and why does the Raven standing on top of her threaten the narrators sanity
Name one event that builds on suspense in the story
Montresor getting his servents to leave so the he brings Fortunato to a empty house Montresor taking Fortunato into the basement(dark, damp, lots of catacombs, bones) Montresor chaining Fortunato to a wall
You could be put in this when you die.
What is a sepulcher?
The symbol for social barrier between rich and poor.
Why did Pospero lock everyone in the abbey
They are common antagonists in a Gothic novel.
What are supernatural beings
The only thing the Raven ever says and it’s meaning
Nothing can change the speaker’s loss of his love
What two objects are depicted on the crest and what do they mean
A foot being bitten by a snake, meaning that while an enemy may overpower a Montresor, the Montresors will strike back with deadly force.
“The wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee”.
Which figurative device is being used here?
What is personification
The symbol for the stages of life. or The symbol for the 7 deadly sins.
What is each of the seven rooms
The Gothic genre combines these two things.
Horror and Romanticism
This is one possible explanation for Poe's repetition of the name "Lenore.
Insanity, going crazy, etc.
The theme of the story and when in Poes life it was written
Revenge and the end
The speaker tells us how the family "bore" her from him.
In this context, BORE means ______.
Carry her away
the message of the story
You cannot escape death