Edgar Allen Poe
Short Stories
Literary Devices
Book Club
Citations
100

In this story, one character says "Nevermore".

What is "The Raven"?

100

In this short story, a mom finds out that the stories her son has been telling her about another boy,  are about her son.

What is "Charles"?

100

This is when something is described as being "like" something else.  Ex.  Their relationship was like oil and water.

What is a simile?

100

In this book, kids are getting ready to leave behind a planet that is becoming unfit to live on.

What is Last Day on Mars?

100

In a citation, you must have the author's name and this in parentheses.

What is the year?

200

 In this story, the main character kills an old man because of his eye.

What is "The Tell Tale Heart"?

200

In this short story, a girl misses out on seeing the sun because she gets locked in a closet.

What is "All Summer in a Day"?

200

This is when something is described as actually being something else, when it isn't.  Ex.  You are the sun.

What is a metaphor?

200

In this book, a boy learns how to use chalk lines to defend himself.

What is The Rithmatist?

200

If you don't use a citation to quote facts you used from someone else, you could be accused of this.

What is plagiarism?

300

In this story, hubris or pride is the main character's downfall.

What is "The Tell Tale Heart"?
300

In this short story, a person swindles another during a frog-jumping contest.

What is "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?
300

This is when an object is described to have human/animal/life-like characteristics.  Ex.  The car's eyes shown in the night.

What is personification?

300

In this book, we learn about the skills and games that made this athlete's career.

What is Golden?

300

The name of the Google extension we use to make bibliographies.

What is EasyBib?

400

In "The Raven", the main character is sad because of the death of this woman.

Who is Leonore?

400

In this short story, a woman thinks she sees the walls come to life.

What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

400

When something is described so that you have a hint as to what will happen next.

What is foreshadowing?

400

In this book, we get to see what an African American family goes through to go to school, work and keep their land in the South during the mid 1900s.

What is Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry?

400
The error in this citation:  "May the force be with you (Lucas, 1976)."

What is the parentheses should be outside or after the quotation marks.

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