Tell-Tale Heart
The Black Cat
Poe's Bio
Figurative Language
100

This is the feature of the old man that disturbs the narrator.

What is his "vulture eye?"

100

The first black cat dies in this manner.

What is by hanging?
100

Poe's greatest enemy was this scorned writer who declared his feud with Poe after receiving the equivalent of a C. 

Who is Rufus Griswold?

100

The use of the word nevermore in the Raven.

The use of the phrase "the sound increased" in the Tell-Tale Heart.

What is repetition?

200

The narrator spends this long preparing to murder the old man.

What is one week OR what is 7 days?

200

The narrator is caught because of this.

What is the cat's cries?

200

This was the man who adopted Poe, but did not provide for him.

Who is John Allan?

200

The meaning of the color red.

What is love, passion, anger?

300

This is the means by which the old man is killed.

What is suffocation?

300
The murder weapon when the narrator killed his wife was this.

What is an axe?

300

This was Poe's most famous piece of writing.

What is The Raven?

300

This is the trope that Poe perfected when the narrator speaks in contradictions.

What is the Unreliable Narrator?

400

A confession is brough about by this sound.

What is the beating of the old man's heart?

400

The difference between the second black cat and the first black cat is this.

What is a white gallows marking on its chest?

400

This is the most surprising thing about Poe's writing that has been lost with time.

What is Poe was funny?

400

The colors of the rooms in the abbey represent this.

What are the seven deadly sins?

500

The narrator claims his hearing is like this.

What is extremely acute?

500

The Narrator kills Pluto because of this.

What is the cat ignored him?

500

This is how Poe died.

What is no one really knows?

500

The beating heart most likely represents this.

What is the narrator's guilt?