Suspense
What literary device does the author use in this sentence to build suspense? "but then all at once, there came a most deadly nausea over my spirit, and I felt every fiber in my frame thrill as if I had touched the wire of a galvanic battery?
What is a simile and imagery
What shape was the dungeon?
what is a square
What perspective is this story told in?
What is a first person perspective.
What was the first torture device that the narrator ran into?
what is the pit
When was Edgar Allan Poe born?
A. January 19, 1809 B. February 13, 1809
C. October 7th 1849 D. December 9th, 2024
What is January 19, 1809
What literary device is used in this quote? " In the center yawned the circular pit from whose jaws I had escaped"
What is personification
What was in the center of the dungeon?
what is the pit
What caused the narrator to almost fall into the pit?
What is, he tripped on the cloth of this clothing
How did the narrator figure out where he was / navigate the room?
He placed his hand on the wall and counted the amount of steps it took until he was back where he started.
When did Poe die?
A. January 19, 1809 B. October 7, 1849
C. February 14, 1849 D. April 1, 1859
What is B, October 7, 1849
What literary device is used to build suspense in this quote? 'What boots it to tell of the long, long hours of horror more than mortal, during which I counted the rushing vibrations of the steel! Inch by inch---line by line---with a descent only appreciable at intervals that seem ages- down and still down!"
What is repetition/parallelisms and diction
What was the first thing that the narrator sees when he opened his eyes?
What is nothing/blackness
After being tied to the bench, what body part did the narrator only have access to moving?
What is his left arm, from the elbow down
How did the narrator escape the pendulum?
The rats ate away at the fabric that tied him to the bench.
How many cats did Edgar have? A. 2 B. 1 C. 3 D. 5
What is A, 2
What type of literary device is used in this quote? "The ground was moist and slippery. I staggered onward for some time, when I stumbled and fell."
What is imagery
What were the conditions like in the dungeon? (multiple answer question)
What is, "moist and slippery", dark, lots of rats
How did the narrator get into this situation? (why is he in the dungeon)
What is, he was sentenced to death
What element of Dark Romanticism is used in this quote, "The appeared to me white- Whiter than the sheets upon which I trace these words- and thin even to grotesqueness; thin with the intensity of their expression of firmness-of immovable resolution- of stern contempt of human torture."
What is horror of humanity
Approximately how many stories did he write?
A. 59 B. 60 C. 51 D, 84
What is C, 51
What literary device is used in this quote to build suspense? "And now a full memory of the trial, of the judges , of the sable draperies, of the sentence, of the sickness, of the swoon"
What is a flashback and parallelisms
What pictures were on the walls of the dungeon? (multiple answer question)
What are demonic figures, skeleton drawings, "fearful images overspread and disfigured the walls"
What element of Dark romanticism is shown through the narrator's actions in this quote? "I dread the first glance of the objects around me. it was not that I feared to look upon things horrible, but that I grew aghast lest there should be nothing to see."..."My worst thoughts, then, were confirmed. The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. I struggled for breath."
What is madness and derangement
Towards the end of the story, what happens to the dungeon? (multiple answer question)
The base of the walls lift, separating from the floor, the walls of the room started to heat up. at the same time the walls started to close in on each other pushing the narrator towards the pit.
At what age did Poe publish his first book?
A. 16 B. 20 C. 22 D.18
What is D, 18