All About Poe
The Black Cat
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Raven
Important Literary Devices
100

This is the year and city when Poe was born.

What is 1809 and What is Boston?

100

Is "The Black Cat" a poem or short story?

What is a short story?

100

What point of view is this written in?

What is first person?

100

A poem's paragraphs are called...

What are stanzas?

100

The repeated use of an important word or phrase.

What is repetition?

200

What year did Poe die? List one theory about how he died.

What is 1849? (answers may vary)What is a heart attack?

200

This story is written in what point of view?

What is first person?

200

Name one symbol Poe used in "Tell-Tale Heart."

What is the eye?

200

"The Raven" is this type of poem.

What is narrative?

200

Identify internal rhyme.

What is rhyme in a line of poetry?

300

Poe is considered the father of what?

What is Mondern day detective stories?

300

The narrator believes himself to be a good person. Explain how this differs from his actual personality in the story.

What is the narrator was good before, and then becomes an alcoholic and starts abusing his wife and pets?

300

What does the narrator hearing the heartbeat of the old man after he's dead represent?

What is the narrators guilt?

300

Name two themes in "The Raven".

What is grief and insanity?

300

Define alliteration.

What is words that begin with the same letter?

400

Who did Poe marry? What was so weird about it?

Who is Virginia Clemm and she is his cousin that is 13?

400

Explain the irony of how the cat "sees" the narrator after its eye is cut out.

What is the narrator cut out the eye and now the cat can "see" what type of person he really is?

400

The narrator's belief about human nature.

What is that humans do bad things, even though they know they are bad?

400

The narrator's internal conflict in "The Raven".

What is he lost his love, Lenore, and is driven mad with grief?

400

What are the three types of irony?

What are situational, dramatic, and verbal?

500

Poe was an unhappy most of his life. List 3 reason why he was unhappy.

What are his parents died, he was poor his whole life, and his wife died?

500

What does the narrator believe the second cat symbolizes in this story?

What is the devil or death?

500

Briefly summarize "The Tell-Tale Heart".

What is the narrator killed the old man because of his eye. He chops the man up and hides him under the floorboards. The police come to check the house, but they find nothing. The narrator invites them to stay and chat, but the beating of the old man's heart gets louder and louder until the narrator confesses to his crime?

500

The reason the Baltimore Ravens got their name.

What is Poe's death in Baltimore is still a mystery, and his work is popular, so they wanted to be the Baltimore Ravens?

500

Define situational, dramatic, and verbal irony.

What is...(Situational is) a contrast between reality and expectation, (Dramatic is) reader knows more than the character, (Verbal is) intentional exaggeration?