Poe's Life
Born in this month
What is January?
The name of the narrators cat
What is Pluto?
A malicious intent to inflict wickedness or evil upon others
What is malevolence?
A protagonist driving the story forward regardless of the evil qualities the main character has
What is a villain protagonist?
“I am above the _________ of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”
What is weakness?
Died this year
What is 1849?
The weapon the narrator used to kill his wife
What is an axe?
The quality of being easily taught or controlled
What is docility?
A chronic disease in which a person craves drinks that contain alcohol and is unable to control his or her drinking
What is the alcoholic?
“This latter was a __________ large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.”
What is remarkably?
Was an ________ and substance abuser
What is alcohol?
What the first and second cat had in common
What is missing an eye?
An illusion or figment of the imagination. Usually within the context of being horrifying or inspiring dread.
What is phantasm?
A moment when a normally competent character suddenly becomes incompetent, which fuels an episode, a plot line, or any number of smaller threads.
What is an Idiot Ball?
“Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not ______.”
What is dream?
He married this one person
What is his cousin?
What the narrators house was destroyed by
What is a fire?
A large fire
What is a conflagration?
Cruelty to animals
What is animal abuse?
“Beneath the pressure of _______ such as these, the feeble remnant of the good of within me succumbed.”
What is torments?
He died this way
What is mysteriously?
The narrators first companion
What is a dog?
Something that is permanent, unchangeable, and with a conclusion that is certain and unavoidable
What is irrevocable?
A zoophilist, pet lover, pet person, and friend of animals or friend to animals
What is an animal lover?
“I came to look upon it with unutterable ________, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence.”
What is loathing?