Who was Poe?

The adjective macabre is used to describe things that involve the horror of death or violence. Try it out! If a story involves lots of blood and gore, you can call it 

What genre of literature did Poe specialize in?

• Comedy

• Horror

• Romance

• Nonfiction

What made Poe standout from other horror authors of his time?

• His attention to the characters

• How he builds suspense

• His attention to form and style

• His ability to scare the reader

What two things make up the unity of effect?

• The ability to read in one sitting and every word must contribute to the story.

• The ability to creep out the reader with the prose and the sudden plot twists.

• The ability to leave the reader hanging, wanting more.

• The limited visibility and unreliability of the narrator and side characters that help the narrator.

What makes Poe's stories so interesting? (Pick Two)

• They center around horror, violence and mystery.

• They center around love and guilt.

• They center around politics.

• They center around questions that everyone asks themselves.

Poe is famous for his "unreliable narrators". What is an unreliable narrator?

• This is a narrator that uses tricks to set the other characters against each other.

• This is a narrator that breaks the fourth wall and interacts with the reader.

• This is a narrator that relies on all of the other characters to tell the story while doing nothing.

• This is a narrator that can not be depended on to tell the truth about what is going on in the story.

What story type did Poe create?

• The psychological thriller, Thriller

• The Romantic Comedy, Rom-Com

• The detective story type, Mystery

• The Greek Tragedy, Tragedies

Poe often wrote ___ poems about grief and loss, after the death of his mother and wife

Poe became famous posthumously, If Post means after, what does this word Posthumous mean?

• After birth

• After death

• After retirement

• After marriage

Visage means face, what do they mean in the sentence here:

"Perhaps it may have brought a smile to that famously brooding visage"

• It means that maybe Poe would be happy

• It means that maybe Poe would have continued frowing

• It means that Poe had an ugly face

• It means that the visage was brooding