Figurative Language
Keen as that of a razor
What is a simile?
The narrator.
Who is the prisoner?
Poe's most famous book, having sold 750 copies originally.
What is The Raven?
Achieve, arrive at
What is attain?
The main religion during the Spanish Inquisition
What is Christianity? (Catholicism)
The candles, seemed white slender angels.
What is metaphor?
The story takes place in.
What is Toledo, Spain, 1809?
The 13 year old that Poe married.
Who is Virginia Clemm?
What is vague?
The groups being targeted by the Catholics in the Spanish Inquisition
Who are Jews or Muslims?
The pendulum is a creature that fans me with its acrid breath.
What is personification?
The pitcher of water the narrator received acted as this
What is sleeping medication?
This is the genre that Poe is coined as creating.
What is Modern Detective Fiction?
fainting, or losing consciousness
What is swooning?
The estimate of how long the Spanish Inquisition lasted
What is 400 years?
The tall candles sank into nothingness: their flames went out utterly; the blackness of darkness supervened;
all sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the soul into Hades.".
What is a hyperbole?
The narrator escapes from being saved by this individual.
Who is General Lasalle?
The age in which Poe wrote his first book.
What is 18 years old?
comically, or repulsively ugly or distorted
What is grotesque?
The most influential leader of the Spanish Inquisition
Who is Friar Tomás de Torquemada?
"...A mad rushing descent, as of the soul into Hades"
What is Allusion?
The author adds suspense by focusing on this in the story
What is the pendulum?
The sport in which Poe claimed to be a "champion" in.
What is swimming?
thin, light, delicate
What is gossamer?
The amount of Jews killed during the Spanish Inquisition
What is 300,000 Jews killed during the Spanish
inquisition?