Poetic Devices
The Raven speaking in "The Raven" is an example of this poetic device...
What is personification?
Fortunato is killed by being walled up within these.
What are the catacombs?
Poe was born in this major, east coast US city, though he is associated often with Richmond or Baltimore
What is Boston?
Where does the word "Gothic" come from specifically?
Gothic architecture
What is "The Raven"?
“The Raven” is mostly written in trochaic octameter. What is trochaic octameter an example of?
What is meter?
The palace in "The Masque of the Red Death" contains this many colored rooms.
What is seven?
This is where Poe perished.
What is Baltimore?
What is Taphophobia?
"I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here!"
What is "The Tell Tale Heart"
What is internal rhyme?
This 1841 story is considered the first modern detective story, featuring C. Auguste Dupin.
What is "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"?
Poe is known as the "father" of this specific type of story.
What is the detective story?
Poe’s gruesome, torture tale, “The Pit and the Pendulum,” serves as a dramatic monologue. One narrator tells us the story of his imprisonment and sentencing by the...
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
"I know not how it was – but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit."
What is "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
The last word of each line that share the same rhyme pattern at the end of the line - “Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; / This is and nothing more.”
What is end rhyme?
The second cat in "The Black Cat" is identical to the first, except for a patch of white fur that slowly takes the shape of this execution device.
What are the gallows?
In "The Mystery of Marie Roget," Poe was determined to find the cause of death of a real murder mystery. Her name was...
What is Mary Rogers?
This industry had somewhat of a "boom" during Poe's time, as people were afraid of premature burial...
What is the coffin industry?
“In pace requiescat”
What is "The Cask of Amontillado"?
"While I nodded, nearly napping..." is an example of which literary device?
What is alliteration
This is the Spanish city where the narrator is imprisoned in "The Pit and the Pendulum"
What is Toledo, Spain?
Poe wrote Gothic stories, detective stories, and poetry. But he was also famously known for this type of writing...
What is literary criticism?
This was the disease that "The Masque of the Red Death" was based on.
What is tuberculosis (TB)?
"And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall."