All About Poe
The Black Cat
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Raven
Important Literary Devices
100
This is the birthplace of Edgar Allen Poe.
What is Boston Massachussetts?
100
This is the point of view The Black Cat is written in.
What is First?
100
What is the reason the narrator wants to kill the old man?
What is that the man's eye?
100
The place where the raven entered the Narrator's chamber.
What is the window above his door?
100
This is how literary devices are used.
What is they are used to make writing more interesting and generally better?
200
These are the years Poe was born and died.
What is 1809 and 1849?
200
This is how many people/animals the Narrator murders in The Black Cat.
What is three?
200
This is the way in which the man is disposed of.
What is chopped up and put underneath the floorboards?
200
This is the type of poem The Raven is.
What is a narrative?
200
A hyphenated adjective used to describe yourself when your hungry.
What is I-might-eat-this-computer-if-I-don't-get-some-lunch?
300
This is the disease both Poe's mother and wife died of.
What is Tuberculosis? (TB)
300
This is the body part Poe seems obsessed with and makes the Narrator pull from the cat.
What is the eyeball?
300
These are the three kinds of irony used in the Tell-Tale Heart.
What is situational, dramatic, and verbal?
300
What is the mood and atmosphere of The Raven.
What is suspense?
300
These are all literary devices used in the Raven.
What is internal rhyme, alliteration, and repetition?
400
This is the name of Poe's wife and his relation to her.
What is his cousin and Virginia Clemm?
400
This is the name of the Narrator's first cat, and what it is meant to symbolize.
What is Pluto and da devil?
400
Besides the eye, this is the other symbol in The Tell Tale Heart.
What is the heartbeat?
400
This is the repeated word said by the Raven?
What is Nevermore?
400
What is another great writing resource primarily used in writing.
What is Smiley Face Tricks?
500
These are five suspected causes of death for Poe, and the age that he died at.
What is Rabies, Heart Attack, Epilepsy, Murder, Hypoglycemia...etc. and 40?
500
This is the irony in the face that the cat "sees" the Narrator after his eye is pulled out.
What is that the cat sees the Narrator for what he really is, though he has limited vision?
500
A theme of The Tell-Tale Heart and what it means?
What is Fear of discovery can bring about discovery, and the Narrator was afraid that the police might know what he had done, and he got so nervous, he admitted to his bad deed?
500
Give a summary of The Raven.
What is a Man is mourning his lost love, Lenore, and a Raven comes in. The Narrator feels like the Raven is mocking him when he mutter Nevermore. The Narrator is driven crazy by the Raven.
500
Give an example of an alliteration.
What is Angry alligators amaze astounding anteaters?