Annabel Lee - Edgar Allen Poe

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Annabel Lee

Edgar Allen Poe

Content

1. discuss grammar test.

2. listening ex. note taking - questions after.

3. Revision stylistic devices (TEST!!!!)

What is the unity of effect?

1. getting and keeping the reader's attention by following 2 important rules.
2. getting and keeping the reader's attention by using violence and horror.
3. Making sure that the story can be read within an hour.
4. Making sure that the story is relatable.

What is mentioned as a core feature in Poe's work?

1. The exclusive use of violence and horror in his stories and poems.
2. The use of an unreliable narrator to draw readers in.
3. The use of the supernatural to explain the plot.

Why was Poe called versatile?

1. He wrote both poetry and short stories in gothic style
2. His work was all about the human propensity for self destruction
3. His writing covered a great variety of genres.

Poe's poetry

1. is different because it is not gothic.
2. is different because it is about his poverty and loss of mother and wife.
3. is different because it is mainly about loss.

Stylistic devices

Task

Look up the definition of the stylistic device.

Come up with an example.

Stylistic devices:

alliteration

metaphor

simile

repetition

personification

assonance

1. Life is like a box of chocolates.

1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Personificaton

2. The fire swallowed the entire forest.

1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Personification

3. Love is a battlefield.

1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Personification

4. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.

1. simile
2. alliteration
3. personification

5. “But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word…” Edgar Allan Poe

1. simile
2. alliteration
3. personification

6. ”My love is like a red, red rose” Robert Burns

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification

7. ”…Juliet is the sun!” William Shakespeare

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification

8. “I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills…” William Wordsworth

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification

9. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary... While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping...” Edgar Allan Poe

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. alliteration

Annabel Lee

Listen and read. 

Underline any stylistic devices you believe you hear. 

3. "Nor the demons down under the sea..."

1. alliteration
2. simile
3. personification

4. "... can ever dissever..."

1. alliteration
2. assonance
3. simile

5. "... my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee"

1. simile
2. alliteration
3. repetition
4. metaphor

6. "That the wind came out of the cloud by night chilling and killing my Annabel Lee."

1. personification
2. simile
3. metaphor

7. "That the wind came out of the cloud by night chilling and killing my Annabel Lee."

1. metaphor
2. assonance
3. simile

8. Of my darling - my darling - my wife and my bride

1. assonance
2. repetition
3. simile
4. alliteration

9. "And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by her side"

1. assonance
2. metaphor
3. alliteration
4. simile

10. "In her tomb by the sounding sea."

1. simile
2. assonance
3. alliteration

1. What is one of the main themes of this poem?

1. the grief of losing a loved one
2. the revenge of a loved one
3. eternal power of love
4. the importance of family

2. What is the tone? "It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea"

1. optimistic
2. light
3. melancholic
4. critical

What do we learn about the setting? (time & place)

Who is the narrator and who is his subject?

Which lines inform you of Annabel Lee's death?

How does the narrator explain her death?

How does the narrator describe Annabel Lee? Give quotations.

Apply the terms 'reality' and 'fantasy' to this poem.

Think of themes to fit this poem.

Is this poem about eternal, or obsessive love? Explain.

Is the narrator indeed too young to know 'true love'? Are the older people mentioned in the poem right?

Structure & Form

What can you say about the rhyme scheme?

Find examples of repetition. Why do you think this is used?

What is the point of view?

1. 1st person
2. 2nd person
3. 3rd person limited
4. 3rd person omniscient

Give an example of imagery.

Give an example of a metaphor.

Give an example of assonance.