Vocabulary
Provide a synonym for mad
Crazy
Please list Edgar Allan Poe's birthday
January 19, 1809
What animal does the narrator compare the old man's eye to?
That of a vulture.
List 3 words that Poe uses for repetition in the text.
mad, me, eye, louder, you
True or False.
Poe had lots of financial success during his lifetime.
FALSE
Define cunningly
Used in a deceitful manner
What did Edgar Allan Poe's mother die of?
Tuberculosis
What excuse did the narrator give the police officer's about the scream the neighbors heard?
He was the one who screamed while he was dreaming.
"Death" "Evil Eye"
are examples of...
Personification
Aside from "The Tell Tale Heart", name another classic literary work by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Explain the simile as black as pitch
Pitch is a very dark and sticky substance
Who was Edgar Allan Poe's wife?
Virginia, his cousin
For how many nights did the narrator step into the old man's room?
7 long nights
"It is the beating of his hideous heart! "
This is an example of...
alliteration.
He uses the "h" sound repeatedly.
What were Poe's last words?
"Lord, help my poor soul."
Define marrow
The soft fatty tissue in the cavities of bones. Blood cells are produced there
What genre did Edgar Allan Poe give birth to?
The modern detective story.
What time did the narrator finish dismembering and putting away the dead man's body?
At 4 o' clock.
"So I opened it–you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily–until at length a single dim ray like the thread of the spider shot out from the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye."
This is an example of...
a simile.
he uses "like" to compare two things.
Define stealthily
Carefully, quietly. So as to not be discovered
Define scantling
A piece of sawn wood that has a cross section. Probably the space under the wooden floor
When his father refused to help Poe with expenses, what did Poe do for money?
Gamble
When he hears the old man's groan, what does our narrator say the groan is of?
The groan of MORTAL TERROR.
"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."
This is an example of...
Irony
During our class discussion, what did we say was the reason for someone's extreme lack of movement?
Catatonic Schizophrenia