Poe Flashcards
(61 cards)
Which of the following does not have internal rhyme
“And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor”
Which word in the following passage is an example of onomatopoeia? “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door”
Tapping
The Speaker in The Raven can be best described as
Melancholy person trying to forget a tragedy
The final stanza in the raven ends upon a note of complete
Despair
Near the end of the poem, the speaker asks the raven two questions which the bird answers “Nevermore”.. These questions concern
What will happen after death
We can infer from the end of the raven that
The speaker will never escape his despair
The visitor in the raven is called all the following except
A soul in mourning
When the speaker opens the door of his chamber and peers out, he half expects to find
The deceased woman who he has been in love
The mood that is sustained throughout The Fall of the House of Usher is one of pervasive
Horror and gloom
In The Fall of the house of usher, the narrator discovers that Roderick is all of the following except
Bedridden
Before he enters the mansion, the narrator notes “a barely perceptible fissure in the building”; this is an example of
Foreshadowing
Which of the following events does not happen at the end of the fall of the house of usher
Madeline and Roderick attack the narrator
What isnt a basic fact about the fall of the house of usher
Roderick has a twin sister who does of cataleptic seizure the first night.
Who does Poe attribute the opening quote to in Ligeia
Joseph Glanville
The nagar narrators first wife taught him
Metaphysics and transcendentalism
The narrators first wife paints a gruesome surreal picture of horror, despair, ultimate death and decay in her poem with “Man” as the tragedy and the ________ as the hero
Conqueror worm
Astophet a goddess mentioned in Poe’s description of the narrator’s first wife was the goddess of
love and fertility
“My brain reeled… To assumptions and aspirations which mortality had never before known” What is the narrator referring to?
His wife’s views about man’s will in overcoming death
Which story is a story within a story
The Fall of the House of Usher
What story is the quote “in pace requiescat”
Cask of Amontillado
What story is ‘Pallas Athena’ referenced?
The Raven
What story has a court jester
Cask of Amontillado
What story is the character Rowena from?
Ligeia
What story is Roderick from?
Fall of house of usher
