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Sound Devices
Figurative Language
All Things Poe
The Raven
The Tale Tell Heart
100
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal dared to dream before.
What is an example of alliteration?
100
In the poem, The Raven, Poe writes about a bird that can talk. This is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is personification?
100
Virginia Clem
Who is Poe's 13 year old cousin and wife?
100
Lenore
What is the name of the person the narrator is mourning?
100
Because he dislikes the old man's cloudy eye.
What is the narrator's motive for murder?
200
rapping, tapping, rustling
What are examples of onomatopoeia?
200
The gray light fell upon the vulture eye. Is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is an example of a metaphor?
200
$14
What is the amount of money that Poe made from the poem "The Raven"?
200
Nevermore
What is the one word that the Raven repeats over and over again?
200
Vulture eye
What the way the narrator refers to the old man's eye?
300
weary A lore B tapping C door B door B
What is rhyme scheme?
300
Because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow. Is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is personification?
300
Detective Story
What type of literature is Poe given credit for writing for the first time?
300
His chamber or bedroom
What is the setting of the poem "The Raven"?
300
He hears the beating of the old man's heart and it drives him mad.
What is the reason the narrator turns himself in to police?
400
Nothing farther than he uttered--not a feather then he fluttered.
What is an example of internal rhyme?
400
"Black as pitch"
What is a simile?
400
Tuberculosis
What is the disease that killed Poe's mother, adoptive mother, and wife?
400
Reading, nearly napping
What is the narrator doing when the bird raps on his door?
400
Under the floor
Where does the narrator bury the old man?
500
And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.
What is an example of assonance?
500
In "The Tale Tell Heart" the narrator states he has not moved a muscle in over an hour. This is an example of what?
What is hyperbole?
500
West Point
What is the military school that Poe attended and was kicked out of?
500
Enemy
What is the definition of the word "fiend"? This what the narrator calls the bird.
500
The police
Who visited the house after the old man was murdered?