NEW FIXED Edgar Allan Poe Unit

One of the worst fears people had during Poe's lifetime was this ...

• Grave Robbers

• Being Buried Alive

• Spiders

• Fear of Public Speaking

“The darkness seemed to be squeezing the breath out of me.”  What figurative language is this an example of and what does it mean?

• simile - It’s just a comparison between darkness and squeezing

• metaphor: It means that someone was suffocating him in the darkness

• hyperbole: It’s an exaggeration of how panicked he felt about the darkness

• alliteration: It means that the darkness was so heavy it drowned him

“The floor seemed solid, but it was slippery with slime.” What figurative language is this an example of and why does an author use it?

• simile: It’s used only for poetry and music

• metaphor: There is no reason it’s used

• hyperbole: It’s used for exaggeration, to make it stand out

• alliteration: It’s used to make the words sound like music; they flow

What figurative language is this an example of and what does it mean? "… I even tried to force myself upwards toward the terrible blade. At last, I was suddenly calm and lay smiling at it, like a child with a glittering toy. "

• Simile: He was slowly going crazy to think the blade was like a glittering toy

• Metaphor: he was comparing the blade to a toy for fun.

• Hyperbole: he was exaggerating the level of fear he felt

• Alliteration: Poe likes to rhyme a lot.

What word best describes what the main character was feeling for most of the time in his prison cell?

• Insanity

• Worry

• Despair

• Delight

What sentence from the text proves how the narrator was feeling most of the time while he was in his cell?

• "I laughed and then I howled as the pendulum moved closer."

• "But I could not work it free of the ropes."

• "I would have welcomed death at this point. Anything was better than this horrible waiting."

• "Down steadily down it crept."

What word from the story kept popping up and was important because it kept the narrator trying to stay alive after all the terrible tortures he was put through?

• Death

• Sentence

• Fear

• Hope

What made the narrator decide to measure the cell and try to figure out what it was like?

• Insanity

• Despair

• Fear

• Curiosity

Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem is ___?

• "The Pit and the Pendulum"

• "The Raven"

• "The Tell-Tale Heart"

• "Lenore"

An example of a refrain in "The Raven" is ___?

• "Quoth the Raven, Nevermore"

• "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary"

• "While I nodded, nearly napping..."

• "Take they beak from out my heart"