Biography
Motifs
Narrators
Tell-Tale
The Raven
Writing
100
What did Poe's mother and foster mother die of?
consumption/tuberculosis
100
What color are most of the animals Poe writes about?
black
100
What are the names of the narrators?
They do not have names.
100
How does the narrator get caught?
He confesses.
100
Poe thought the most beautiful thing to write about is the death of a beautiful woman. Who is the dead woman in "The Raven"?
Lenore
100
What is the appositive?
When I was sick, my sister, the nurse, took care of me.
my sister
200
Who did he marry?
Cousin Virginia
200
What is significant about the time Poe establishes for both stories? (hint: what time does the action take place?)
Midnight is the witching hour and evil things superstitiously happen then.
200
What is the mental state of both narrators?
They are both mad or show signs of insanity.
200
Who is the narrator speaking to? "You think I am mad."
police, therapist, counselor, priest
200
Where does the narrator think the raven is from?
Plutonian shore, underworld, land of the dead
200
What punctuation goes before but and so in a sentence?
a comma
300
What military school did he get kicked out of?
West Point Military Academy
300
The eye was thought to be . . . .
the window to the soul
300
Why does the narrator of "The Raven" talk to the bird?
He is lonely and depressed because his love has died and his friends have left him.
300
What is the real issue with the old man's eye?
He has a cataract.
300
What is the setting of the poem?
an isolated house, on a bleak December night around midnight
300
What does the word BUT indicate in a sentence?
A change, opposite
400
Poe died in 1849. Where is he buried?
Baltimore, Maryland
400
Poe was afraid he would be ____ when he died. Something he wrote a lot about.
He was afraid to be BURIED ALIVE when he died.
400
What does the narrator from "Tell-Tale" hear really?
His own heart beating.
400
How long did the narrator stalk the old man?
seven nights - killed him on the eighth.
400
Explain one horror movie trope found in "The Raven".
teacher assessed
400
Combine:
Poe wrote the first detective story.
Poe was nicknamed The Father of Detective Fiction.
teacher evaluated
500
What did he write that made him famous?
"The Raven"
500
Doppelgangers are something Poe included a lot in writing. What are they?
Someone who looks just like another person/ two sides to the same person
500
Both narrators are hyper focused on something. What do we call people who are like this?
obsessed (with the eye and the raven)
500
Why does the narrator think he is NOT mad?
He says he is wise and calm about the whole thing.
500
On whose bust is the raven sitting on?
The bust of Pallas (Athene)
500
What part of speech are the following words:
but, so, and, for, nor or, yet
conjunctions