Edgar Allen Poe s Works and Life Biography

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Edgar Allen Poe's Works and Life

Biography Annabelle Lee/ The Raven Tell-Tale Heart Oval Portrait Amontillado 10 10 10 20 20 20 30 30 30 40 40 40 50 50 50

QUESTION: • What is the first name of Edgar Allen Poe's wife? ANSWER: • Virginia

QUESTION: • True or False: Poe's adoptive father gave him plenty of money to live off of during his life. ANSWER: • False, he gave him very little, expecting Poe to find his own paths to fortune.

QUESTION: What disease killed both Poe's mother and, later, his wife? ANSWER: • Tuberculous (TB) [Two-ber-cu-loh-sis]

QUESTION: • Name one of two things that Poe was very good at when he went to the University of Virginia. ANSWER: • Art and writing

QUESTION: • When Poe was 13, the mother of his best friend died. What was her name? ANSWER: • Jane Stannard

QUESTION: Annabelle Lee is a fake name for someone in Poe's life. Who is that person? (You may name his relationship to him/her or his/her name. ) ANSWER: Virginia, his young dead wife.

QUESTION: What is a sepulcher? ANSWER: A tomb or building used to house corpses.

QUESTION: What does “Nevermore” mean in “The Raven”? ANSWER: Never Again.

DAILY DOUBLE!! Worth an extra prize to the team. QUESTION: What are both “The Raven” and “Annabelle Lee” about? ANSWER: A man grieving his dead wife.

QUESTION: What is the narrator asking the Raven? ANSWER: If he will ever see his wife again.

QUESTION: What does “mad” mean in “The Tell. Tale Heart”? ANSWER: Crazy or insane.

QUESTION: True or False: The narrator wants to kill the old man and steal his money. ANSWER: False, he says he loved the old man and had no wish for his material things.

QUESTION: What point of view is the story told from? • A) First Person Point of View • B) Second Person Point of View • C) Third Person Point of View • D) Omniscient Point of View ANSWER: A) First Person Point of View: He uses the term “I” and “me” and refers to things that he alone knows and did.

QUESTION: • What is theme of “The Tell-Tale Heart”? ANSWER: • A guilty conscious will get you.

DAILY DOUBLE!! Worth an extra prize to your team! QUESTION: “It was a low, dull, quick sound – must like the sound a watch makes that has been wrapped in cotton. ” What is the sound? ANSWER: Either the blood beating in his own ears or the “sound” of the dead man's heart beneath the floorboards.

QUESTION: True or False: The setting of “The Oval Portrait” is in a manor house one dark and stormy night long ago. ANSWER: • True

QUESTION: What part of the story does the narrator describe how real the painting looks? A. Denouement B. Falling Action C. Climax D. Rising Action ANSWER: D. Rising Action: It happens during the set up of the story.

QUESTION: Who dies once the painting is completed? ANSWER: The Painter's wife

DAILY DOUBLE!! Worth an extra prize to the team! QUESTION: • What is theme of this story? ANSWER: • Obsession can be deadly.

QUESTION: • Is the painter of “The Oval Portrait” a flat character or a round character? ANSWER: • Flat character: We don't see many emotions from him in the story.

QUESTION: • What are the names of the two main characters in the “Cask of Amontillado”? ANSWER: • Fortunato and Montressor

QUESTION: • Why does Montressor want revenge on his old friend, Fortunato? ANSWER: • Fortunato insulted Montressor, though we don't know what the insult was about.

QUESTION: • True or False: The narrator is Fortunato, dressed in disguise. ANSWER: • False, the narrator is Montressor, dressed in disguise.

QUESTION: • What is Fortunato's weakness? ANSWER: • Good wine.

QUESTION: • Summarize what happens at the end of the “Cask of Amontillado”. ANSWER: • Montressor bricks Fortunato up in the catacombs to die there.

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