Vocab
Poe
Literary Concepts
Mars!
What's that story?
100
The part of a story between the exposition and the climax.
What is rising action?
100
Like the narrators in "Tell-tale Heart" and "The Raven", this is when the storyteller can't be trusted.
What is unreliable narrator?
100
When one thing stands for another thing, like this :) or this <3
What is a symbol?
100
One of the most famous pictures in science, titled "Pale Blue Dot," is a picture of this.
What is the Earth?
100
A little boy has a naughty imaginary friend.
What is "Charles"?
200
A comparison between two unlike things, using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
The point of obsession of the narrator in "Tell-tale Heart", and the reason he murders his elderly roommate.
What is the old man's "vulture eye"?
200
A comparison between two things that does NOT use "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
200
The reason people who want to live on Mars need $38.
What is an application fee?
200
A man got tired of his usual hobby, so he makes a new version with murderous rules.
What is "The Most Dangerous Game"?
300
What a character wants, and why.
What is motivation?
300
The raven's favorite phrase, as if birds can talk.
What is "Never more"?
300
A guess based on clues in the text and prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
300
"So slight as to be difficult to detect," as in the difference in the taste of the food on Mars.
What is "subtle"?
300
A man has to leave his fiancee to save a child, a detective helps by ignoring it.
What is "A Retrieved Reformation"?
400
The primary driving force of a story, often discussed as "_________ vs _________".
What is conflict?
400
The thing the narrator insists on repeating in "Tell-tale Heart", though no one believes him.
What is "I am not mad"?
400
A society based on human misery.
What is a dystopia?
400
The thing Harry was trying to build in "Dark They Were and Golden Eyed".
What is a rocket?
400
Watson thought it was gypsies, but Holmes knew the doctor's collection was more dangerous.
What is "Most Dangerous Game"?
500
The central idea behind a story. It is how the world of the story applies to the real world.
What is theme?
500
The name of the woman who died in "The Raven".
Who is Lenore?
500
The view from which you see a story, as in, "This story is told from Henry's __________."
What is perspective?
500
The reason the Bitterings left Earth, and the reason they couldn't go back.
What is atomic war on Earth?
500
A porter is on time for his final appointment.
What is "11:59"?
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