Edgar Allan Poe Story Quotes

“We passed through a range of low arches, descended, pass on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.”

• The Cask of Amontillado

• The Tell-Tale Heart

• Annabel Lee

• The Raven

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

“Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, in the sepulcher there by the sea”

• The Cask of Amontillado

• The Tell-Tale Heart

• Annabel Lee

• The Raven

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

“And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me.”

• The Cask of Amontillado

• The Tell-Tale Heart

• Annabel Lee

• The Raven

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

“Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!”

• The Cask of Amontillado

• The Tell-Tale Heart

• Annabel Lee

• The Raven

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.W.7.9A

“Other friends have flown before- on the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.”

• The Cask of Amontillado

• The Tell-Tale Heart

• Annabel Lee

• The Raven

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

"He was still sitting up in the bed listening;—just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.”

• The Cask of Amontillado

• The Tell-Tale Heart

• Annabel Lee

• The Raven

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

“But our love it was stronger by far than the love of those who were older than we- of many far wiser than we”

• The Cask of Amontillado

• The Tell-Tale Heart

• Annabel Lee

• The Raven

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

“I remember it was in the bleak December, and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”

• The Cask of Amontillado

• The Tell-Tale Heart

• Annabel Lee

• The Raven

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

“It was a low, dull, quick sound—much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.”

• The Cask of Amontillado

• The Tell-Tale Heart

• Annabel Lee

• The Raven

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

 “I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.”

• The Cask of Amontillado

• The Tell-Tale Heart

• Annabel Lee

• The Raven

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4