Test - Edgar Allan Poe

Question 1

The imp of preverse summary

Answer 1

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Imp of the Perverse” is told from the perspective of an unnamed man as he sits in jail waiting to be hanged for murder. He had planned the murder for months, trying to come up with a method that would leave him consequence-free, all so he could inherit his victim’s estate.

DETAILS:
1. The narrator completed a murder by poisoning a candle and feels very proud of his crime as because he outsmarted everyone.
2.The growing obsession, his feeling of safety turn out to be an obsession and he becomes nervous of accidentally confessing to someone.
3. The confession: narrator confesses as perversenss controls him which led to narrator downfall. (theme guilt, obsession and the power of self-sabotaging).

Question 2

first person point of vie

Answer 2

In first person point of view the narrator is a character in the story telling it from their perspective. In third person point of view the narrator is not part of the story and the characters never acknowledge the narrator’s presence.

Question 3

internal conflict

Answer 3

Internal conflict is a struggle within a person’s mind over a problem or question.

An internal conflict occurs when a character in literature experiences tension within themselves. Internal conflict is the opposite of external conflict, which occurs when a character faces outside oppositional forces, such as another character or an act of nature.

Question 4

symbolism

Answer 4

Symbolism is the idea that things represent other things.
What we mean by that is that we can look at something — let’s say, the color red — and conclude that it represents not the color red itself but something beyond it: for example, passion, or love, or devotion. Or maybe the opposite: infidelity

Question 5

alliteration

Answer 5

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
ex. The boy buzzed around, as busy as a bee

The main reason to use alliteration in poetry is that it sounds pleasing. It’s a means to get the attention of readers or listeners. It’s also a clear way to signify that the alliterative words are linked together thematically, and it puts a spotlight on the subject

Question 6

imp

Answer 6

a small, mischievous, spirit of devil

Question 7

perverse

Answer 7

a desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way

Question 8

rhyme scheme

Answer 8

a patter of rhyming sounds in lines of poetry

Question 9

theme

Answer 9

the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

: the main subject that is being discussed or described in a piece of writing, a movie, etc.

Question 10

the themes or topics of his poems

Answer 10

grief of guilt
lesson: it will always come out

Question 11

Which decade it was that Edgar Allan Poe wrote his most famous works

Answer 11

Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known works include the poems “To Helen” (1831), “The Raven” (1845), and “Annabel Lee” (1849); the short stories of wickedness and crime “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843) and “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846); and the supernatural horror story “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839).

Question 12

based on true events?

Answer 12

no but a few books were inspired by some real true events

Question 13

what does it teach

Answer 13

these all feature divine justice or crime and punishment. Raven, Annabel Lee, and Helen are all about love and loss

The moral of ‘‘The Tell-Tale Heart’’ is that a guilty conscience will take control. In the story, the narrator tries to blame his murder on the old man’s eye, but a close reading shows that he relishes the act of stalking the old man and that the eye is simply an excuse for a murder he plans to carry out.

Question 14

raven vocabulary

Answer 14

quaint: pleasantly old fashioned
beguile: charm someone, sometimes in a deceptive way
bleak: dreary or miserable, not hopeful
desolate: deserted and in a state of dismal emptiness/ desperate
gaunt: overly skinny, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age
implore: beg someone sincerely, or desperately to do something
ominous: giving the impression of something bad is going to happen
placid: not easily upset or excited
radiant: shining or glowing brightly
stately: having a dignified, majestic manner and appearance

Question 15

noun

Answer 15

a word that refers to a thing (book), a person (Noah Webster), an animal (cat), a place (Omaha), a quality (softness), an idea (justice), or an action (yodeling).

-er, -ation, -ing, -ness, -ment

Question 16

adjective

Answer 16

a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. Adjectives can be used to describe the qualities of someone or something independently or in comparison to something else

-ed, -ing, -ful

Question 17

verb

Answer 17

The simple aspect of a verb is the same as its past, present, and future tenses, such as “I walked,” “I walk,” and “I will walk.” .

–fy, -en

Question 18

adverb

Answer 18

An adverb is a word that modifies (describes) a verb (“he sings loudly”), an adjective (“very tall”), another adverb (“ended too quickly”), or even a whole sentence (“Fortunately, I had brought an umbrella.”).

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