Name ____________________________
Poe Reading Check
Complete the following analogies.
averted
imperceptible
tumultuous
1.
___________________ : unclear :: accept : reject
2.
Invisible : __________________ :: weep : cry
lucid
potent
3. Peaceful : __________________ :: calm : nervous
4. Weak : ____________________ :: love : hate
5. Deep : profound :: deflected : _________________
Reading check for “The Pit and the Pendulum”
1.
Describe the setting. What does the narrator remember before fainting?
2.
What are different fears that the narrator faces?
3.
What is the fate of the narrator? How do his captors treat him? Why do they give him food?
4.
How does the narrator free himself? How does the narrator use rats to help himself in this situation?
5. What divine intervention saves him in the end?
6.
What are different symbols used in the story? (consider the pit, pendulum, the French Army, etc.)
Explain the answers to these questions.
1.
Why would lucid directions help someone to operate a camera?
2.
Why should people avert their eyes from the sun?
3. A mystery movie often begins with imperceptible music, followed by shocking, tumultuous noise. What are the
effects of these sounds?
4. List two potent smells – one good and one bad.
Reading check for “The Raven”
1.
What is the noise that the narrator hears at the beginning? Who does he half expect to find when the door is
opened?
2.
At first, what is the narrator’s reaction to the raven? How does his attitude change? What makes him change
his view?
3.
Why does the narrator guess that the bird keeps repeating “nevermore”?
4. Near the end of the poem, the narrator asks the Raven two questions to which the bird answers, “Nevermore.”
What do these questions concern?
5.
How would you describe the speaker? Predict how this person will continue his life after the conclusion of the
poem.
6.
Give an example of a line of the poem that has internal rhyming.
7.
Give an example of a line with alliteration in the poem.
8.
“This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word” is a line from the poem. The word “murmured” is an
example of what poetic device?