General Info
Author of "The Pit & the Pendulum"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Symbolic significance of the color black
What is death?
Type of Figurative Language used in the following quote: "(The lips of the judges) appeared to me white- whiter than the sheet upon which I trace these words."
What is a Metaphor?
What the "acrid breath" refers to
What is the pendulum?
Why the protagonist rips off pieces of his clothing
What is to lay them around the edges of the cell/dungeon to judge the size & shape of it?
Point of View that "The Pit & the Pendulum" is written in
What is 1st Person POV?
Symbolic significance of the color white
What is purity/innocence?
Type of Figurative Language used in the following quote: "All sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad, rushing descent as the soul into Hades."
What is an Allusion?
What is cold, hard, and slimy
What are the walls and floor of the cell/dungeon?
The protagonist fears that there are many of these within the cell/dungeon
What are pits?
Historical event that "The Pit & the Pendulum" is set during
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
Symbolic significance of the black robed judges
What are death figures (Grim Reaper, Crypt Keeper, etc.)?
Type of Figurative Language used in the following quote: "...while the angel forms became meaningless specters with their heads of flame..."
What is Personification?
This causes the "inquisitorial hum"
What is the protagonist's mental & emotional state/sensory overload?
What the protagonist realized he was incorrect about regarding the cell/dungeon
What is the size and shape of it?
The protagonist's intended fate
What is death (via torture/torture devices)?
Symbolic significance of the candles
What are angels?
Type of Figurative Language used in the following quote: "In the center yawned the circular pit from whose jaws I had escaped..."
What is Personification?
This causes the protagonist to become "irresistibly drowsy"
What is the drugged water that was left as an offering for him?
How the protagonist gets the rats to help him out
What is rubbing the meat that was left for him on the cloth holding him to the wooden board?
Reason why the protagonist is unnamed
What is that the protagonist represents all victims of the Spanish Inquisition and it combines with the 1st Person POV to allow readers to immerse themselves in the chronicled experience?
Symbolic significance of the rats
What is representation of the French soldiers/savior figures?
Type of Figurative Language used in the following quote: "(The pendulum moved) inch by inch- line by line- with a descent only appreciable at intervals that seemed ages..."
What is Hyperbole?
This thought comes to the protagonist like a "rich, musical note"
What is the thought of death/"sleep within the grave?"
The three means of torture/murder that the protagonist escapes
What are the pit, the pendulum, and the crushing walls/fire within the cell/dungeon?