American Authors
Poems and Stories
Baltimore
S words
Poe-pourri
100
This American author wrote "Thou Art the Man"
Who is Edgar Allen Poe
100
This poem showed disdain for the moon
What is "Evening Star"
100
This NFL team plays in Baltimore Maryland.
Who are the Ravens?
100
This S'word means "caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power."
What is supernatural?
100
Poe is considered the father of this literary genre?
What is the Detective Story?
200
Poe called short stories the most powerful form of literature while reviewing this American legend.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne.
200
This story's narrator is daunted by an evil eye.
What is "The Tell Tale Heart."
200
Pfouts was born in this city.
What is Baltimore?
200
When Poe was two his mother died of this disease.
What is tuberculosis
300
This author wrote The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
300
This story had a brother and sister in a rotting house.
What is "The Fall of the House of Usher."
300
Poe was buried in Baltimore in this year.
What is 1849?
300
This is another word for "apparition"
What is a specter?
300
In 1949 the US Postal Service issued a Poe stamp for this much money
What is three cents?
400
She is known as the Bell of Amhearst and only published a handful of her many hundred poems in her life.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
400
This is Pfouts' pfavorite Poe story.
What is "William Wilson"
400
Edgar Allen Poe was found dead in this Eastern city.
What is Baltimore?
400
This word refers to the internal structure of a sentence.
What is syntax?
400
Every year since 1949, an anonymous fan has visited Poe's grave on the night of his birthday and has left a partially filled bottle of cognac and three roses.
Who is the "Poe Toaster"
500
This Southern author is known for many shortstories perhaps most famously, " A Good Man is Hard to Find."
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
500
This story is over forty pages, has a trick ending and should be read by the most ardent Poe fan.
What is "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
500
Famous Maryland Blue Crabs are abundant in this bay
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
500
This word means "lying on the back"
What is "supine?"
500
Poe was expelled from West Point for this offense.
What is "gross neglect of duty"
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