HISTORICAL CONTEXT

POLITICS:
POLITICS:
- Jeffersonian Democracy

- Jeffersonian
-Jacksonian
EraDemocracy
-Jacksonian Era

ARTS:
ARTS:
-Romanticism

-Romanticism
-Impressionism
(paintings)
Impressionism
-African American(paintings)
blues
African
American
blues
- Chicago school
- Chicago school

SOCIETY AND ECONOMY:

SOCIETY AND ECONOMY:
- War
- War
-Slavery
-Slavery
-Industrial
revolution
-Industrial revolution

RELIGION:
RELIGION:
Christian sects

Christian sects
-Evangelical
Church (The Second Great
-Evangelical
Awakening) Church (The Second Great
Awakening)
-The
Church Of Jesus Christ Of The
-The Church
Of Jesus Christ Of The
Latter-days
Saints.
Latter-days
Saints. Lutheran, Baptist
-African
Episcopal,
-African Episcopal, Lutheran, Baptist
Church
Church

EDGAR ALLAN POE

Death:
7-1849

was born
19-1809

(1845)
Published
The Raven

Writer, Editor, Poet,

Literary Critic

(1836)
he married with
his cousin

Education:
UK and United State

Lived: Boltimore,
Philadelphy, New York.
Grahams
Magazine

Parents:
Elizabeth Arnold and
David Poe

(1830)
Military Academic at
West Point

(1827)
First book:
Tarmelane

LIST OF BOOKS

GENERAL MEANING

DETAIL MEANING
Exposition:

The writer introduces the

caracters and setting, providing
description and background.

Inciting incident:
Something happens to begin the action.
Sometimes called the complication.
Rising action:

Events lending up to the climax; trying to

solve a problem.

DETAIL MEANING
Climax

The moment of greatest tension

emotional high point of the story.

Falling Action:
The consecuences or events caused by
the climax which close the story.

Resolution:
The conclution of the story, when all or
most of the conflicts have been settled.

or

INTENTION OF THE AUTHOR

The impact of alcohol on
human behavior.

RHETORICAL PATTERNS
Narrative
Descriptive

LITERARY DEVICES

Alliteration: words are used in quick succession and begin with

letters belonging to the same sound group. E.g. The Wicked
Witch of the West went her own way.
Metaphor: word or phrase meaning one kind of object or idea is
used in place of another to suggest a similarity between them.
E.g. My brother wasboiling mad.
Personification: refers to the practice of attaching human traits
and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and
animals. E.g. The warm and comforting fire.

LITERARY DEVICES

Paradox: refers to the use of concepts or ideas that are

contradictory to one another, yet, when placed together hold
significant value on several levels.E.g. You can save money by
spending it.
Symbolism: is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities
by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their
literal sense. E.g The dove is a symbol of peace.
Allusion: is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place,
thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political
significance. E.g. This place is like a Garden of Eden.

LITERARY DEVICES

Irony: words are used in such a way that their intended meaning
is different from the actual meaning of the words. E.g The name
of Britains biggest dog was Tiny.
Simile: shows similarities between two different things. E.g. Our
soldiers are as brave as lions.

POINT OF VIEW: First person

THEME: violence- aggressiveness - alcoholism
SETTING: the story is being told from prison but takes
place in narrators home. (cellar-garden).

CARACTERS:
Narrator

Round-dynamic

His wife

Static-flat

Two black cat

Policeman

Round-dynamic
Static-flat

envolve in all story

killed by her own husband
One was killed and Other
was the shadow of the
narrator
Found the bodys
woman in the wall.

PHYSIOLOGICAL PROFILE

Who has not, a hundred

times, found himself
Disturbed and insane man
committing a vile or a silly
action,
for no other reason than
hung it because I
because he knows he should
knew that in so doing I was
not? Have we not a
committing a sin--a deadly sin that
perpetual inclination, in the
would so
teeth of our best judgment,
jeopardize my immortal soul as to
to violate that which
place it--if such a thing were
is Law, merely because we
possible-understand it to be such?
even beyond the reach of the infinite
This spirit of perverseness, I
mercy of the Most Merciful and Most
say, came to my final
Terrible God.
overthrow.