Poe's Life
The city that Poe lived and died in.
What is Baltimore?
This is who Annabel Lee was written about.
Virginia Clemm (Poe's wife)
This is what drives the narrator to kill the old man.
The old man's vulture eye.
In “To Science,” Poe calls this field of study a “vulture” that preys upon the poet’s heart.
What is "Science"?
This is why the narrator seeks revenge
Fortunato insulted him
This was the age of Poe's wife when she died
What is 24?
This is who the narrator blamed for killing Annabel Lee
The angels in heaven.
This is what the old man does when he hears someone in his room.
He jumps up and yells, "Who's there!"
This mythological maiden, associated with beauty and transformation, is one of the figures Poe says science has driven from the earth.
Who is Diana?
This is the narrator of "Cask of Amontillado"
Montresor
This is the disease that killed mostly all of the women Poe loved
Tuberculosis (TB)
This is why the narrator believes Annabel Lee was taken from him
Jealousy from the angels
This is where the narrator hides the old man's body.
Under the floorboards
Poe claims that science has robbed the poet of this essential tool for imagination and creativity.
What is fancy (or imagination)?
This is one who deliberately does not tell the whole truth
Unreliable narrator
This is the work that made Poe famous.
"The Raven"
This is when Annabel Lee was written (circumstance, not date).
When Virginia died of TB.
This is how the narrator wants the audience to perceive him.
As a sane person.
The poem suggests that science has taken away these nighttime visions that once inspired poets and dreamers.
What are dreams?
This is the tone of the story
mounting hysteria
This is the name of the NFL team named for Poe.
What is the Ravens?
This is the theme of Annabel Lee
True love never dies
This is what the narrator hears and describes as, "a low, dull, quick sound, such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton."
The beating of the heart.
The tone of “To Science” is critical because Poe believed science destroyed this type of artistic or imaginative expression.
What is poetry (or myth/romantic expression)?
This is the dramatic irony that drives the plot
The audience knows that Montresor seeks revenge, but Fortunato does not.