Literary Elements
I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then, am I mad? Hearken and observe how healthy-how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
What is alliteration
The strongest sense the narrator had
What is hearing
Above all was the sense of hearing (acute). I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.
What is sharp
The genre that Poe was most famous for
What is horror; mystery
"Almighty God!--no, no! They heard!--They suspected!--They knew!--They were making a mockery of my horror!"
What is paranoid
For it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil eye
What is personification
The old man sits up in bed
What happens on the eighth night
What is a crack or narrow opening
1600s 1700s 1800s
What is the 1800s
"I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pittied him although, I chuckled at heart. I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him.
What is arrogant
For a whole hour, I did not move a muscle.
What is hyperbole
The narrator does this with the old man after he kills him
What is dismembers the corpse
I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the (scantlings).
What is wooden beams
Virginia, his cousin
What is the woman Poe married
"I smiled, -for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream."
What is calm
All in vain because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.
What is personification
The noise the narrator hears as the police officers make small talk.
What is the beating of a heart.
I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent (gesticulations), but the noise steadily increased.
What is dramatic hand gestures
Still to this day, we don't know what happened
What is, how Poe died
"Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded--with what caution--with what foresight--with what dissimulation I went to work!
What is convincing
I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
What is irony.
The way the narrator reacts to the police officer’s request to search the house
What is leading them around the house, encouraging them to search thoroughly and having the men sit in chairs in the bedroom
A shriek had been heard by a neighbor during the night; suspicion of foul play had been aroused; information had been lodged at the police office, and they the officers, had been (deputed) to search the premises.
What is appointed
A sad thing that happened to Poe in his youth
What is he lost both of his parents
"I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye-- not even his--could have detected anything wrong."
What is superior