Show what you know about Poe!
1809
1909
1849
1949
Romantic fiction
Nonfiction
Detective fiction
Horror fiction
"Annabel Lee"
"The Raven"
"The Bells"
"Tell-Tale Heart"
Tobacco merchants
Writers
Actors
None
He drank too much.
He broke too many rules.
He left the base.
He scared too many people.
She was murdered.
She got tuberculosis.
She had a brain tumor.
She killed herself.
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Murder
Love
Tuberculosis/disease
Family
Poe's mother
Poe's adopted mother
Poe's aunt
Poe's wife/cousin
Angry
Crazy
Frustrated
Sane
He's annoyed by the old man's voice.
He is driven crazy by the old man's eye.
He wants the old man's house.
He is angry that the old man is smarter than him.
One day
One month
One year
One week
He sits up in bed and cries, "who's there??"
He sleeps soundly.
He attacks the narrator.
He crawls under his bed.
He stabs him in his heart with a knife.
He suffocates him under the bed mattress.
He strangles him with his hands.
He poisons him.
When the old man wakes up.
When the narrator confesses.
When the narrator kills the old man a puts his body under the floor boards.
When the narrator stalks the old man.
A feeling of hatred
A feeling of sadness
A feeling of guilt
A feeling of confusion
The narrator gets away with the murder.
The old man comes back to life.
The police question the narrator.
The narrator confesses.
He hears the beating of the old man's heart in his head.
He sees a spot of blood on the floor and thinks they'll see it.
He thinks the police already know.
He isn't a very good liar.
Resolution
Rising action
Introduction or exposition
Falling action
Introduction or exposition
Falling action
Climax
Resolution or conclusion
Theme
Plot
Resolution
Summary
Text-to-Self Connections
Text-to-Text Connections
Text-to-World Connections
Making Connections
Summarizing
Predicting
Inferring
Virginia!!!
Raven!!!
Murder!!!
Reynolds!!!
He was murdered.
He committed suicide.
He had a brain tumor.
We don't know for sure. It's a mystery!
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