Poe's Life
Tell-Tale Heart
Cask of Amontillado
Literary Devices
Webquest
100

Where did Poe attend college?

What is the University of Virginia

100

What did the narrator compare the evil eye to?

What is a vulture

100

How many injuries has Montressor endured?

What is 1000

100

The narrator puts his chair on top of the dismembered body while the police are in the room.

What is dramatic irony

100

What was the fake name that Edgar used to enter the army?

What is Edgar A. Perry

200

What was Poe's wife's name?

What is Virginia

200

How did the narrator kill the old man?

What is by suffocation or smothering

200

How many tiers of bricks are used to wall in the victim?

What is 11

200

It hangs like moss upon the vaults.

What is a simile

200

How much money did Poe inherit from John Allan?

What is nothing

300

What was Poe's most successful work?

What is The Raven

300

Where does the narrator hide the dead body?

Where is under the floorboards in the man's bedroom

300

For how long have the bones been undisturbed?

What is 50 years or half-century

300

When the last brick is put into place

What is the climax

300

What famous horror story was published when Poe was 9 years old?

What is Frankenstein

400

What poem did Poe write about his dying wife?

What is Annabel Lee

400

How many nights was the eye closed?

What is 7

400

How was Fortunato dressed?

What is as a jestor or a clown

400

Fortunato says "I shall not die from a cough"

What is foreshadowing

400

What is another name for tuberculosis?

What is consumption

500

What did Poe's first crush die from?

What is brain cancer

500

What does the narrator think the police are doing to him?

What is mocking him or toying with him

500

Which revenge requirement did Montressor NOT meet?

What is his victim did not know why the revenge was occurring

500

What kind of narrator does The Cask of Amontillado have?

What is an unreliable narrator

500

Which of Poe's stories is about a search for pirate treasure?

What is The Gold Bug

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