All About Poe
The Black Cat
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Raven
Important Literary Devices
100
This is Poe's birthdate.
What is 1809?
100
These are some of the characters in the "The Black Cat"
Who are the narrator, the narrtator's wife, the black cat, the second black cat, and the police.
100
These are the characters in "The Tell-Tale Heart".
Who are the narrator, the old man, and the police?
100
This is the type of poem "The Raven" is.
What is a narrative poem?
100
This is the summary of "The Tell-Tale Heart".
What is-A man works for and old man in an old house. The man doesn't like the old man's eye and decides to kill him. During the week before the murder, the man watches the old man sleep. The night of the murder, the man suffocates the old man. When the police come the man thinks he "hears" the old man's heart and confesses to the murder?
200
This is the date of Poe's death and three theories on how he died.
What is 1849 and rabies, drunk, heart-attack, beat to death, and epilepsy?
200
This is the name of the first black cat and the point of view the story is told from.
What is Pluto and first person?
200
This is the point of view the story is told from.
What is first person?
200
This is what a poem's paragraphs are referred to as.
What are stanzas?
300
This is Poe's wife's name and her age and relation to him(before their marrige).
Who is Virginia Clemm-13 years old-and cousin?
300
These are the three examples of the narrator using the gallows in the story.
What are the narrator hanging Pluto, the white spot on the second black cat in the shape of the gallows, and when the house burns down the people see Pluto's shadow in the wall with the noose around his neck.
300
This is the reason the narrator murderd the old man.
What is he didn't like his eye?
300
This is what the raven repeats over and over throughout the poem.
What is "Nevermore"?
400
These are three reasons why Poe didn't have a long, happy life.
What are his parents died when he was young-his wife died-and he died at the age of 40?
400
This is the irony of how the cat "sees" the narrator after its eye is cut out.
What is after the narrator cuts out its eye, the cat can "see" the narrator for what he really is?
400
These are two symbols Poe used in "The Tell-Tale Heart".
What is the eye and the ticking of the old man's heart?
400
This is the narrator's internal conflict in "The Raven".
What is the narrator is grieving over his lost love, Lenore?
500
This what Poe is considered to be the father of and the story that gave him this title.
What is "The Father of Modern Day Detective Stories" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"?
500
These are two out five themes in "The Black Cat"
What is 1)A human being has a perverse, wicked side-another self-that can goad him into doing evil things that have no apparent motive 2)Heavy drinking can bring out the worst in a human being, ect.?
500
These are the three types of irony that Poe uses in "The Tell-Tale Heart".
What is situational, dramatic, and verbal irony?
500
These are the names of the Baltimore Ravens' Mascots.
Who are Edgar, Allan, and Poe?