Poe test Flashcards
(50 cards)
t/f Poe’s own life was as dark and dismal as the fiction he wrote
T
t/f Poe is the inventor of the romance novel
F
t/f Poe was an alcoholic
T
t/f Poe was raised by his natural parents
F
t/f Poe argued that a short story should be constructed to achieve a single effect
T
t/f Poe married his 16 year old cousin
F
t/f Poe was an editor for a series of magazines where he endeavored to expose literary pretensions of certain others
T
t/f The narrator loved his second wife as much as he loved his first wife
F
t/f The narrator with three ruby red drops of some liquid falling into his wife’s wine glass
T
t/f The narrator’s first wife returning from the grave by changing places with his second wife
T
t/f Ligeia believes that a strong enough will can conquer even death
T
The visitor in the raven is called all of the following except a
Soul in the mourning
Which of the following lines does not have internal rhyme
“and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”
In “ the raven,” When the narrator opens the door of his chamber and peers out, he half expects to find
the deceased woman with whom he has been in love
The speaker in “The raven” can best be described as a
Melancholy person trying to forget a tragedy
Near the end of the poem, the speaker asks the raven two questions to which the bird answers “ Nevermore.” These questions concern
What will happen after death
In which lines below are the underlines words an example of alliteration
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
The final stanza of “the raven” ends upon a note of complete
Despair
We can infer from the ending of “the raven” that
The speaker will never escape his despair
Which word in the following passage is an example of onomatopoeia
Tapping
Which one of the following events does NOT occur at the end of “the fall of the house of usher”?
Madeline and Roderick attack the narrator
In “The fall of the house of usher,” The narrator discovers that roderick is all of the following except
Bedridden
The mood that is sustained throughout “ the fall of the house of usher” is one of pervasive
Horror and gloom
Before he enters the usher mansion, the narrator notes “ a barely perceptible fissure” in the building; this is an example of
foreshadowing
