Story
What is the tone of the story?
The tone of the story is strange, frightening, and creepy.
Athletes must sleep well after performing an intense workout. Not sleeping well will impede the recovery.
What is the meaning of impede in the sentence?
To interfere with or slow the progress of.
What was Edgar Allan Poe famous for?
Edgar Allan Poe was famous for his tales and poems of mystery and horror.
Identify the sentence type:
Get out of my way right now.
Imperative sentence.
Who comes in at the chiming of the clock?
While everyone was silent, an uninvited guest shows up.
What happens when everyone dies?
After everyone dies, the clock stops and all of the flames of the candles goes out.
The student enjoyed his joyful reverie while the teacher was explaining the boring lesson.
What is the meaning of reverie in the sentence?
Daydream; lost in one's thought
What from Poe's work was called to be the best known poem in American literature?
The Raven
To get a 4.0 every year is Mohammad Almeer's goal.
Identify the Infinitive phrase in the previous sentence.
To get a 4.0 every year
What does Prince Prospero demand the people to do to the uninvited guest?
He demands them to catch them and hang them.
What is the main theme of the story?
The theme of the story is that life has an end and no one can hide or escape from death.
Because the students were talking loudly, they are experiencing the cessation of that privilege.
What is the antonym of the word cessation?
Start or resumption
What were the theories of the cause of Edgar Allan Poe's death?
Theories stated that the cause of Poe's death was alcohol poisoning to brain lesions to rabies.
Combine the following sentences using infinitives:
He did not have enough money. He could not buy a new phone for his son.
He did not have enough money to buy a new phone for his son.
What does the hiding people do after couple of months of isolation?
They have a masquerade ball, which is an event of wearing masks
What does the ballroom look like?
The ballroom is consisted of many colors like blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black. Each color represent something different than the other.
The blasphemous kid was kicked of the class due to his rude actions.
Put the synonym of blasphemous in your own sentence.
The school's principal punished the disrespectful kid.
List Five of Edgar Allan Poe's work
The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, The House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Masque of The Red Death.
Identify the appositive phrase in the following sentence:
Cristiano Ronaldo, a famous football player, scored an amazing goal last night.
A famous football player
What does Prince Prospero do after the death of most of his kingdom?
He took his closest friends to a safe place thinking that he will avoid the disease.
What is "The Red Death"?
"The Red Death" is a worldwide spreading across the kingdom that causes pain, dizziness, and bleeding.
In some countries where traditions are strictly followed, propriety orders females to leave their home only when they are married.
What is the meaning of propriety in the sentence?
The condition of being right, or appropriate.
Poe faced many problems as a kid and as an adult that made his life unstable. What are those problems?
Poe was abandoned by his father as an infant, lost his mother at the age of three, had a bad relationship with John Allan, and his wife died eleven years after their marriage due to tuberculosis.
Which part of the sentences is an infinitive? Why? Which is a prepositional phrase? Why?
Soud wanted to go to the cinema after finishing his homework.
Infinitive: "to go" because it is "to" followed by a verb.
Prepositional Phrase: "to the cinema" because it is "to" followed by a noun.
How does the uninvited guest look like? What made the others uncomfortable about this guest?
The uninvited guest looked like he got out of a grave, wearing a mask that looked like a skull.
The thing that made them uncomfortable is that he looked the scariest between others, and had signs of being infected of the Red Death.