Facts about Poe
This is the reason the narrator says he killed the old man.
What is because of the old man’s “vulture eye”?
Edgar Allan Poe is credited with writing the very first modern story in this mystery-solving genre.
What is the detective story?
And the silken sad uncertain (notice the repeated sound).
What is alliteration?
Football mascot named after his story
Who are the Baltimore Ravens
The narrator tries to convince the reader that he is not this.
What is insane (or mad)?
Poe’s detective, C. Auguste Dupin, appeared before this more famous detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
The narrator in The Raven is mourning the loss of this woman.
Who is Lenore?
Was Poe ever adopted after he was orphaned
What is no
The old man's chopped up body.
What is under the floorboards?
In Annabel Lee, the speaker says he and Annabel Lee lived in a kingdom by this natural feature.
What is sea?
What is special about the black room in the Masque of The Red Death?
What is a red window?
How did Poe's wife and mother both die?
What is tuberculosis?
The sound that drives the narrator to confess is described as this.
What is a watch wrapped in cotton?
What is the only thing The Raven says?
What is "Nevermore"
Poe helped establish the modern form of this short, suspenseful kind of story that can be read in one sitting.
What is the short story?
How does the Red Death kill people?
What is bleeding out of every pore?
This literary technique is used when the narrator says he is sane but his actions show otherwise.
What is irony?
On the pallid bust of Pallas
Where did the raven land?
Poe is often called the “Father” of this literary genre that blends horror, death, and the macabre.
What is Gothic literature (or Gothic fiction) or horror?
What are the seven room's in Prince Prospero's castle? (MoRD)
What is blue, violet, purple, green, orange, white, and black?