Edgar Allan Poe's Alone

1809-1849

American writer, poet, editor literary critic

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Johnny Cash

• William Blake

• Naomi Shihab Nye

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Writing that employs dark and picturesque scenery, startling and melodramatic narrative devices, and an overall atmosphere of exoticism, mystery, and dread

m, mystery, and dread

• lyricism

• enjambment

• epigram

• Gothic literature

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An evil spirit or devil, especially one thought to possess a person or act as a tormentor in hell

• Demon

• Politician

• Parasite

• Villanelle

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A strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid

• Torrent

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Metaphor

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The way an author feels about the subject of the work or audience for which it is intended

• Meter

• Mood

• Tone

• Allegory

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A unifying or dominant idea

• Extended metaphor

• epigram

• tone

• theme

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A figure of speech in which the author uses vivid images to describe a phenomenon.

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Tone

• Gothic

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Two (2) lines of poetry that rhyme

• Couplet

• Coupler

• Couch

• Court

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