Characters
This author wrote The Pit and the Pendulum.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
The narrator is kept in this kind of room.
What is a dungeon?
This object slowly moves toward the narrator form above.
What is the pendulum?
This story can be classified as this genre.
What is Gothic literature?
The only source of light comes from this place.
What is the ceiling?
The narrator was known by this title.
Who is the prisoner?
The dungeon has this dangerous deep feature in the middle.
What is a pit?
The prisoner finds the put by doing this.
What is feeling around the dark?
The story is told in this point of view.
What is first person?
What are rats?
This group of people sentences the narrator in the beginning.
Who are the judges?
This was where the prisoner was at before being thrown in the dungeon.
What is the trial?
This causes the prisoner to get extremely tired and lose consciousness.
What is bread and water?
The author adds these elements to make an eerie and nervous effect.
What is suspense?
These were the conditions of the floor in the dungeon.
What is slimy and slippery?
This army arrives right before the narrator would have been dead.
What is the French army?
The story takes place during this historical period.
What is the Spanish War?
The narrator frees himself by doing this to his restrains.
What is smearing food?
The author builds tension by limiting one of the prisoner's senses.
What is sight?
This is the shape of the dungeon.
What is circular?
This military leader saves the narrator at the end.
Who is General Lasalle?
During a certain point, the dungeon's walls begin to change in this way.
What is moving inward and becoming hot?
The narrator at first thinks the judges showed mercy towards him when they did this.
What is speaking softly and calmly?
Poe uses the pit as a symbol.
What is the unknown?
The walls of the dungeon are painted and decorated with these images.
What is disturbing figures and shapes?