EDGAR ALLAN POE-TRY
Edgar Allan Poe was born in this City and State.
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
Whether I am a person, place, thing, or idea, I will never tell, but if I am any of those, you know I am this part of speech.
What is a Noun?
This book will tell you the definition, part of speech, other forms of a word, and sometimes synonyms for any word you choose to look up within it.
What is a dictionary?
Much like an interrogation, this type of sentence is posed as a question and ends with a question mark.
What is interrogative?
In the following sentence, find the error and provide the correct word: I seen a dog in my yard.
What is seen? The correction: I saw a dog in my yard?
Poe was responsible for paving the way for modern detective stories when he created this crime solving character in short stories.
Who is C. Auguste Dupin?
I may describe how you run or how you fall. I can tell you when, where, how, how often, and even how much. Answer quickly.
What is an adverb?
This type of essay requires the writer to draw from a real or imagined personal experience.
What is a narrative?
In for the purpose of making a declaration, this type of sentence will do, and it ends with a period.
What is a declarative?
In the following sentence, find the error and provide the correct word: I been to the store eight times this month.
What is been? Correction: add the modifier to make it say: I have been to the store eight times this month.
Poe wrote many famous poems and tales over his lifetime. This one was about a visitor who was rapping at his chamber door, spoke only one word, and refused to leave.
The Raven
I can tell you all about a noun or a pronoun in great detail and description. I can tell you which one, what kind, and how many, too.
What is an adjective?
This animal has been incorrectly identified a buffalo in the United States for decades.
What is a bison?
Watch out! That period is carrying a stick! These sentence types are named after the end puntuation they carry.
What is exclamatory?
In the following sentence, find the error and provide the correction: We are going to eat Grandma.
What is a missing comma? Correction: Add a comma between eat and grandma to show that we are speaking to Grandma.
Sometimes guilt can overcome even the greatest confidence as was evidenced in this short story by Poe when a caretaker murdered his charge.
What is The Tell-Tale Heart?
Sometimes repetition repetition can get in the way. I can help avoid repetition and replace nouns nouns to make writing/speaking clearer and easier to understand.
What is a pronoun?
Words such as BOOM! CRASH! POW! To demonstrate sound in a writing are forms of this literary device.
What is an onomatopoeia?
Look at this end punctuation. Now, tell me, what type of statement commands or instructs someone to do something.
What is imperative?
In this classroom, Mr. Parkhurst leaves up posters for testing. If you look at them, it is not considered cheating. Instead, it is called using your _________.
What are resources?
Poe accused this "fellow" of plagiarism during his time as a book critic in 1839.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
Whether I am an action or state of being, most people will recognize me as this part of speech.
What is a verb?
Iambic pentameter can be modelled using what sentence about a pirate?
What is "I am a pirate with a wooden leg."
Every sentence should always begin with a ____________ and end with ______________.
What is capital letter and a punctuation mark of some kind.
ACT like a bison requires us to Attend class, Care about ___________, ______________, and ____________, and Try our best all the time.
What is Yourself, others, your work?