Vocabulary
This "a" word means boldness.
What is audacity?
"How, then, am I mad?"
What is interrogative?
The type of writing Poe did for a local newspaper/magazine as a full-time job before the company went bankrupt.
What is criticism? (Also accept critiques/critic)
What is a mattress?
What is dissimulation?
"So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept."
What is declarative?
The job Poe was hired to do right before he died.
What is editing a collection of poems for a poetess?
The number of times the old man shrieks when attacked by the narrator.
What is hark?
"The old man’s terror must have been extreme!"
What is exclamatory?
The year Edgar Allan Poe died.
What is 1849?
The way the narrator disposed of the body.
What is dismembering and hiding under the floorboards?
This "t" word means something of little value or importance.
What is trifle?
"Yet the sound increased—and what could I do? "
What is interrogative?
The disease that killed Edgar Allan Poe's wife.
What is Tuberculosis?
The time when the police come to check about the noise the old man made.
What is 4:00 AM?
This "s" word means being sophisticated, although sometimes only superficially.
What is suavity?
"dissemble no more" and "tear up the planks," as examples
What are imperative sentences?
The title of his first book.
What is "Tamerlane and Other Poems"?
The excuse the narrator gives for the shrieking sound the old man made.
What is a shriek the narrator made due to a dream?