"A Rose for Emily"/"The Adventure of the German Student"
100
Romanticists believe in the expression of this.
What is feelings/emotion?
100
In "The Raven," this is the name of the narrator's lost love.
Who is Lenore?
100
This is the number of rooms in the abbey in "The Masque of the Red Death."
What is seven?
100
In each of these stories, the stranger in the woods represented this.
What is the devil?
100
This is how Emily looked at the end of her life.
What is obese and gray-haired?
200
Romantics embrace this as a source of great art.
What is imagination?
200
This name, used in one of Poe's stories, comes from the Roman God of the Underworld.
What is Pluto?
200
In the poem, “The Raven,” the line, “Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before” is an example of this literary tool.
What is alliteration?
200
This is why Tom Walker first refuses the devil's offer.
What is spite for his demanding wife?
200
This was the setting in "The Adventure of the German Student."
What is Paris, France during the French Revolution?
300
This is seen as a place to escape to from the burden of society and to gain insight.
What is nature?
300
In "The Masque of the Red Death," Poe most likely wanted the ebony clock to represent this.
What is mortality/death?
300
The narrator in "The Black Cat" claims this is one of of the primitive impulses of the human heart.
What is perverseness?
300
These type of people attend the satanic ceremony in the woods in "Young Goodman Brown."
What is all types of people: religious and respected, people of poor reputation, and indians.
300
The people of the town assumed Emily was getting married, because she bought this.
What is an engraved toilet set and a set of man's clothes?
400
This genre, closely related to Romanticism, focuses on the dark, irrational side of human imagination.
What is Gothic?
400
This is a story that has two levels of meaning and is full of symbolism.
What is an allegory?
400
These are some of the characteristics/motifs seen widely across Poe's works.
What is :
Death, death of women
First person narration
Night, midnight
A character losing sanity
Old, creepy houses/castles
400
This is how Young Goodman Brown acts toward people of the village upon his return.
What is avoids them and looks down on them?
400
In "The Adventure of the German Student," the stranger saying she has no friend on Earth and that her home is in the grave are examples of this.
What is foreshadowing?
500
This sub-genre deals not with suspense or the supernatural, but with human nature. It features unbalanced characters, old, run-down buildings and disturbing events.
What is Southern Gothic?
500
This is the reason Edgar Allan Poe chose a raven for the bird in his poem.
What is ravens have long been a symbol of bad omens or death?
500
The appearance of the Red Death in the abbey could be described as this, because the guests took such great precautions to escape the Red Death.
What is ironic?
500
"The Devil and Tom Walker" is what type of legend?
What is a Faust legend, based on the German character of Faust.
500
Stories that are told by a narrator who jumps around in chronological order, like "A Rose for Emily," are told in this style of narration.