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Nouns
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Poe’s Craft
"The Raven"
Literary Elements
100
Nouns are words used to identify these four things.
What are people, places, things, and ideas?
100
The narrator of the story is haunted by this feature of the old man which he says causes him to kill the old man..
What is his eye?
100
In “The Tell-tale Heart” and other stories, Poe uses this type of narrator to create suspense.
What is unreliable?
100
“The Raven” is this type of poem.
What is a narrative poem?
100
A rhyme that takes place within a line.
What is an internal rhyme?
200
Possessive nouns can be recognized by this punctuation mark.
What is an apostrophe?
200
The narrator of the story comes in to the old man’s room at this time each night.
What is midnight?
200
When Poe uses the phrase “weak and weary” he is using a literary device called this.
What is alliteration?
200
The raven in the poem repeats this word meaning “at no point in the future.”
What is "nevermore"?
200
The formation of a word by basing it on the sound it’s describing (such as clang or sizzle).
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Nouns starting with a capital letter are typically this.
What are proper nouns?
300
The murder weapon in "The Tell-tale Heart" is this.
What is a bed?
300
Poe uses these two kinds of birds in “The Raven” and “The Tell-tale Heart” to symbolize death. And why?
What is a raven and a vulture? Both are carrion eaters.
300
The speaker in “The Raven” appears to be mourning the loss of a woman named this.
What is Lenore?
300
A poetic device in which the poet indirectly refers to other literary works, history or mythology.
What is an allusion?
400
Every noun can be classified as either concrete or this.
What is abstract?
400
The narrator of the story speaks of his careful planning of the murder as evidence that he cannot be this.
What is mad or insane?
400
When Poe abruptly changes mood and tone within the same stanza it is referred to as this.
What is antithesis?
400
The poem is set in December. This month of the year often symbolizes this. (More than one answer is possible).
What is death?
400
A comparison made without using “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
500
A noun that denotes a group of individuals (such as herd).
What is a collective noun?
500
The "heart" in the title "The Tell-tale Heart" represents this. (More than one answer is possible).
What is the murderer's conscience?
500
In “The Raven” Poe uses this very rarely used meter.
What is Trochaic Octameter?
500
The speaker of the poem “The Raven” has a statue of this Greek Goddess that the raven perches on.
Who is Pallas Athena (or Pallas)?
500
A group of lines within a poem.
What is a stanza?