Author Facts
The field Poe's parents were in before they passed away.
What is acting?
The way the narrator kills the old man (and the object that was used to do so).
The term for repeating a word in writing to add emphasis or drama.
What is repetition?
Explain in one complete sentence how it feels to read a story from a murderer's Point of View.
What is AAAAAAAAAAA?
The vocab word which means "to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of or to break up or tear into pieces."
What is dismembered?
What we believe to be Poe's relationship to John Allan.
Who is his godfather?
The malady the narrator claims to be suffering from.
What is an acuteness of the senses/heightened senses?
What we call a rhyme where the first sounds of two words rhyme.
What is an alliteration?
What is AAAAAAAAA?
The name of Poe's first fiancee who initially left him for another man but later came back to him after his success
Who is Elmira Shelton?
The disease that killed Virginia Clemm
What is tuberculosis?
The night upon which the narrator killed the old man.
What is the eighth night (happy murder Hanukkah)?
The term for a comparison being created by using like or as.
What is a simile?
What is I'm so spooked I nearly collapsed?
The theory as to how the narrator could be actually hearing a heartbeat while the police can't.
What is it being his heartbeat?
The detail about Poe's life that was gotten wrong on his tombstone (once he got one).
What is his birthday?
The thing the narrator is trying to prove in telling this story.
What is that he is not insane?
The kind of characterization that requires the reader to interpret something about the character as opposed to being told something about them.
What is indirect characterization?
In two complete sentences, list and explain two theories as to what killed Edgar Allan Poe.
What are alcohol syndrome/poisoning, cooping, being beaten to death, or a brain tumor?
Explain in one sentence what makes an unreliable narrator in general.
What is you being unable to trust the narrator's perception of reality?
The name of Poe's first short story collection.
What is Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque?
The spooky visual that the main character compares the old man's eye to.
What is a vulture?
The Shakespeare play being alluded to in referencing a certain [darned] spot in "The Tell-Tale Heart"
What is Macbeth?
In three complete sentences explain how Poe constructed an unreliable narrator, how that made you feel towards the story, and a moment in real life when you might have encountered an unreliable narrator.
SPOOK?
Who the narrator is telling the story to within the world of the story.
What is we don't actually know?