Unit 3 Mid-Unit

1. What year was Edgar Allan Poe born?

• 1804
• 1809
• 1805
• 1806

2. How did Poe influence literature?

• a) He founded the American Romanticism movement.
• b) He created the first known science fiction novel.
• c) He shaped modern horror, mystery, and detective fiction.
• d) He was the first American poet to win a Nobel Prize.

3. Part A: What is the meaning of the word acute as it is used in the opening sentence of "The Tell Tale Heart"?

• a) Dull
• b) Intense
• c) Insane
• d) Vague

5. What is being personified in the sentence: "Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim"?

• a) Death
• b) Shadow
• c) The old man
• d) The narrator

6. Which line best illustrates the narrator’s descent into madness?

• a) "I loved the old man."
• b) "It grew louder—louder—louder!"
• c) "True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am!"
• d) "It was open—wide, wide open—and I grew furious as I gazed upon it."

7. What narrative technique does Edgar Allan Poe use to create suspense in The Tell-Tale Heart?

• a) Figurative Language
• b) Flashbacks
• c) Repetition
• d) Omniscient narration

8. Which piece of evidence best supports the theme that guilt cannot be hidden?

• a) "The officers were satisfied."
• b) "I foamed—I raved—I swore!"
• c) "I admit the deed!—tear up the planks!"
• d) "The old man’s hour had come!"

10. What literary device is being used in the phrase: "And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor"?

• a) Personification
• b) Simile
• c) Metaphor
• d) Allusion

11. Which narrative technique is being used to create tension and mystery in the poem?

• a) Repetition
• b) Suspense
• c) Flashback
• d) Symbolism

12. Identify an example of hyperbole in the poem.

• A) “The silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain”
• B) “Dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before”
• C) “Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door”
• D) “Perched, and sat, and nothing more”