"Poe"try
Heroes and Villains
Themes, Main Ideas, and Conflict
Strictly Symbolic
Potpourri
100
Two words that have the same end sound do this. I'm a poet and I didn't know it.
What is Rhyme?
100
The name of the narrator in "The Cask of Amontillado."
Who is Montressor?
100
The main theme of "The Raven."
What is grief and loss?
100
The raven in the poem "The Raven" symbolizes this theme.
What is death?
100
Genre of Fiction Poe is known for.
What is Gothic Horror or detective fiction?
200
A pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
What is a Rhyme Scheme?
200
The person the narrator of the raven is grieving for.
Who is Lenore?
200
Name one common theme in Poe's stories.
What is (death, human psyche, madness, macabre, horror, lost love, obsession, decay, isolation, dark emotions, etc.)?
200
The meaning of the heartbeat in the Tell Tale Heart.
What is guilt or conscious?
200
The setting of the poem "Annabel Lee."
What is a Kingdom by the Sea?
300
In poetry, a paragraph is called this.
What is a stanza?
300
The sound that drives the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" into madness.
What is a heartbeat?
300
This drives the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" to commit murder.
What is the old man's vulture eye?
300
The Sea in "Annabel Lee" represents this.
What is separation, or distance?
300
The location that Montressor leads Fortunato to.
What is the Catacombs?
400
Repetition of the first sound of a word, just living life.
What is alliteration?
400
This character is buried alive.
Who is Fortunato?
400
Conflict in "The Cask of Amontillado."
What is a vendetta or revenge?
400
The symbolic meaning of the amontillado in "The Cask of Amontillado."
What is pride, impending demise, doom, etc.?
400
The word repeated in "The Raven."
What is nevermore?
500
This creates the atmosphere to tell a reader how they feel.
What is mood?
500
The narrator is mourning the loss of his lover, whose name is the same as the title of the poem.
Who is "Annabel Lee"?
500
The Main theme in "Annabel Lee."
What is love after death, everlasting love, grief, etc.?
500
The eye represents this in "The Tell-Tale Heart."
What is (obsession, evil, judgement, etc.)?
500
Other than "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," and "The Tell-Tale Heart" name one piece by Poe.
What is (The Tall of the House of Usher, The Bells, The Masque of the Red Death, the Black Cat, The Gold-bug, the Murders in the Rue Morgue, the pit and the pendulum, etc.)