Narrator/Author
What had the madness done for the narrator's senses in "The Tell Tale Heart"?
Sharpened them
What was the reason that the narrator killed the old man in "The Telltale Heart"?
his eye vexed him
How did the narrator kill the old man in "The Tell Tale Heart"?
Smothered with mattress
In "The Tell Tale Heart," after the old man was dead, what two acts did the narrator do to conceal the body?
dismembered it and placed it beneath the floor boards
What sense is particularly strong for the man in "The Tell Tale Heart"?
hearing
At the end of the poem, "Annabel Lee," how does the narrator show his love for his wife?
He sleeps in her grave.
In "The Tell Tale Heart," during the week before the narrator killed the old man, how did he act towards him?
he was never kinder to the old man
In "The Tell Tale Heart," why couldn't the narrator kill the old man on the first night?
The eye was closed - the old man was sleeping
In "The Tell Tale Heart," why were the police sent to the house?
a neighbor heard a shriek
Whose heart beat does the narrator in "The Tell Tale Heart" actually hear?
His own
What does the narrator hear in Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing"?
American workers of all kinds singing of the jobs they do.
In the poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" what does the narrator do after listening to the astronomer lecture on the stars?
He leaves the lecture, lays down on the ground and looks up at the stars with his own eyes.
What killed Annabel Lee and why?
Angels because they were jealous
In "Alone," what does the narrator mean in saying "And all I lov'd I lov'd alone?"
No one shared his interests or passions.
In the poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider," the poet never "catches hold" of anything, but the poem is optimistic. Why?
He keeps trying
In "Annabel Lee," where does the narrator say the couple live and how long have they known each other?
They live by the sea and have known each other since childhood.
In the poem "I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing" how it the poet not like a tree?
A tree can stand alone; a person needs friends.
In "Alone," the poet says when he looked at the clouds, they took a different shape for him than for others. What was that shape?
A demon
What is an unreliable narrator?
A narrator you cannot trust.
The narrator in "The Tell Tale Heart" claims that he is not insane because of the way he can tell us the story. How does he say he can tell the story?
Calmly
Name two ways that Whitman enlarged the poetic "I" to take in more of the new American landscape and its people.
longer lines
catalogs (lists)
free verse
Including people from all classes, especially the working class.
In "I Hear America Singing," what is the song a metaphor for?
The unity of the country. American is one, but made up of many different individuals.
In "Annabel Lee," how long has Annabel been dead? Days, months or year?
"It was many and many a year ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived who you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee."
The narrator in "Alone" describes his life as "stormy." How was Poe's life also stormy?
Most people he loved died.
What happened to the gravestone that Edgar Allan Poe's friends took up a collection for?
It was smashed by a derailed train. There was not enough money to rebuild it.