Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Context Clues
Plot
Biography
100
Antonym for explain (lethargy, confound, eloquent) 100
What is confound?
100
Clear; mentally sound (lucid, supposition, pervade) 100
What is lucid?
100
Use context clues to define supervened in the following sentence: “… as if magically, from before me; the tall candles sank into nothingness; their flames went out utterly; the blackness of darkness supervened; all sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the soul into Hades.” (Came next, disappeared, surprised) 100
What is came next?
100
From what stage of the plot is the following passage: “The sentence – the dread sentence of death – was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears?” (Falling Action, Climax, Exposition) 100
What is Exposition?
100
From what disease did Poe's mother, step-mother, and wife die? (Rabies, Whooping Cough, Tuberculosis) 100
What is Tuberculosis?
200
Vividly expressive; precise (confound, indeterminate, eloquent) 200
What is eloquent?
200
Not giving up (lucid, pertinacity, voracity) 200
What is pertinacity?
200
The prisoner examines his surroundings by __________. (lighting a match so that he can see, feeling his way around the wall, yelling to hear echoes) 200
What is feeling his way around the wall?
200
Which of the following events best helps to advance (move forward) the plot? (“I put forward my arm, and shuddered to find that I had fallen at the very brink of a circular pit, whose extent, of course, I had no means of ascertaining at the moment.”; “But my soul took a wild interest in trifles, and I busied myself in endeavors to account for the error I had committed in my measurement.”; “I gasped and struggled at each vibration.” 200
What is “I put forward my arm, and shuddered to find that I had fallen at the very brink of a circular pit, whose extent, of course, I had no means of ascertaining at the moment.”
200
Which word describes Poe's relationship with his step-father? (loving, troubled, devoted) 200
What is troubled?
300
The exact number of stars in the sky (lethargy, confound, indeterminate) 300
What is indeterminate?
300
Synonym for spread (supposition, voracity, pervade) 300
What is pervade?
300
The story creates a sense of horror through descriptions of ____________. (death by poison, an unseen tormentor, death by fire) 300
What is an unseen tormentor?
300
What is the major conflict in the story? (Man vs. Nature, Prisoner vs. Rats; Man vs. Man, Prisoner vs. Unseen tormentor; Man vs. Society, Prisoner vs. Debt collectors) 300
What is Man vs. Man, Prisoner vs. Unseen tormentor?
300
What did Poe do right after he left the University of Virginia? (moved home, joined the Army, toured Europe) 300
What is joined the Army?
400
Impossible to overcome (eloquent, insuperable, pervade) 400
What is insuperable?
400
Antonym for proven fact (supposition, pertinacity, lucid) 400
What is supposition?
400
Select the paraphrase that has the closest meaning to the following passage: “The surcingle (binding) enveloped my limbs and body close in all directions – save in the path of the destroying crescent.” (The bindings wrapped my entire body tightly, except where the pendulum would swing; The bindings wrapped only the part of my body where the pendulum would swing; The pendulum would swing through the wrappings that covered my body) 400
What is the bindings wrapped my entire body tightly, except where the pendulum would swing?
400
How does the setting contribute to the prisoner’s problems throughout the story? (The darkness makes it nearly impossible to examine the cell, The odor from the well is a constant reminder of his impending death, Both ) 400
What is Both?
400
During his lifetime, Poe was best known as ____________? (a literary critic, a fisherman, a scholar) 400
What is a literary critic?
500
A groggy, sluggish feeling (lethargy, eloquent, pervade) 500
What is lethargy?
500
Feeling you get when you skip lunch (pervade, voracity, pertinacity) 500
What is voracity?
500
What can you infer from the following passage: “Upon awakening, and stretching forth an arm, I found beside me a loaf and a pitcher with water. I was too much exhausted to reflect upon this circumstance, but ate and drank with avidity?” (The tormentors are feeding the prisoner so they can continue the torture; There isn’t really any food, the prisoner is so wary that he is hallucinating; The tormentors have given up on torturing the prisoner) 500
What is The tormentors are feeding the prisoner so they can continue the torture?
500
The author’s primary method of characterizing the prisoner throughout the story is by revealing _________. (his thoughts, emotions, and actions; statements he makes to other characters; another character’s opinion of him) 500
What is his thoughts, emotions, and actions?
500
Who is the person that currently visits Poe's grave every year on January 19? (Poe's wife, The Raven, Poe Toaster) 500
What is Poe Toaster?
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