The Raven
The Tell-Tale Heart
ELA Terms
Non-Negotiables
Random Facts
100

"Once upon a ............."

What is "Midnight Dreary?"

100

In The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe is the........

What is the Author?

100

C.E.C

What is Claim, Evidence, Commentary?

100

The first line of every paragraph.

What is an indent?

100

Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California

What are the states that touch the Pacific Ocean?

200

"Qouth the Raven,........."

What is "Nevermore?"

200

What drove the narrator to kill the old man.

What is the old man's eye?

200

Punctuations, Capitalization, Spelling

What are conventions?

200

Where a punctuation mark goes after a quote from a text.

What is INSIDE the quotation mark?

200

11/22/63

What is the day of Kennedy's Assassination?
300

The narrator's dead wife

Who is Lenore?

300

Who the narrator is to the old man.

Who is his caretaker?

300

The person who is IN the story, usually the one doing the talking.

What is the narrator?

300

A or An?: __ Acorn; __ Igloo; __ Ogre

What is AN?

300

The country that produces the most coffee in the world.

What is Brazil?

400

A drink that makes you forget things.

What is Nepenthe?

400

The narrator's "over-acuteness of the senses" allows him to do this.

What is hear the old man's heart beating?

400

The sequence of events in a story.

What is plot structure?

400

Names, Places, Months, Days

What are proper nouns?

400

The main author of the Declaration of Independence.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

500

When the narrator opens the door, he.......

What is sees empty, darkness?

500

The emotion that drives the narrator to confess to the crime.

What is guilt?

500

Words that sound like what they mean, like boom, hiss, snap.

What are onomatopoeia words?

500
The use of domain-specific vocabulary that is appropriate for the audience and purpose.

What is academic vocabulary?

500

The year 2014

When did Mr. Jenkins graduate High School?

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