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"The Black Cat" Why did people make fun of the narrator when he was younger? - ✔✔He was sensitive and tender hearted. What was the narrator's name? - ✔✔We are not told this information. What is the first black cat's name? - ✔✔Pluto What is the allusion connected with the first black cat's name? - ✔✔This was the Roman god of the underworld. What does the narrator first do to the black cat after he comes home drunk one night? - ✔✔He cuts the cat's eye out after the cat bites him. How does our narrator change from how he was when we was younger? - ✔✔He begins to drink. He is mean to his wife and animals. What are some hints that Poe's gives us that our narrator is in jail and will be executed? - ✔✔He says he will die tomorrow in the first paragraph. He says he is in a felon's cell. He says the cat sent him to the hangman. What do Pluto and the new cat have in common? - ✔✔They are black. They are missing an eye. How does the narrator kill Pluto? - ✔✔He hangs him from a tree in the garden. What happens on the same night that the narrator kills Pluto? - ✔✔His house burns. What does the new cat have on his chest? - ✔✔He has a white splotch that is shaped like a hangman's noose. What does anomalous mean? - ✔✔abnormal What is a conflagration? - ✔✔a large fire What does felicity mean? - ✔✔happiness How does the narrator kill his wife? - ✔✔He drives an axe in her head. Why does the narrator kill his wife? - ✔✔The cat trips him, and he gets mad. He turns and in a fit of passion kills his wife. Who does the narrator want to kill instead of his wife? - ✔✔The black cat Why does the narrator originally not kill the black cat? - ✔✔He is ashamed of what he did to Pluto. He dreads the cat. How does the new black cat act with the narrator? - ✔✔He follows him everywhere. He is there all the time--even when the narrator is sleeping. Where does the new black cat come from in the story? - ✔✔The cat follows the narrator home from a tavern one night. He was sitting on top of a hogshead. What is a hogshead? - ✔✔a barrell What is on the one wall that did not burn of the house? - ✔✔An imprint of a cat with a noose around its neck What is an example of foreshadowing in the story? - ✔✔The white splotch that looks like the gallows--hints that death will find our narrator What does the narrator do with the body of his wife? - ✔✔Puts her in the wall of the cellar How does the narrator get caught in his crime? - ✔✔He hits the wall with his cane, and the cat lets out a horrible sounding scream. How old was Poe when he died? - ✔✔40 What is a plot twist? - ✔✔a sudden, unexpected change in a story What is an allusion? - ✔✔a reference that the author expects you to know What is a simile? - ✔✔a comparison using like or as Who does Poe marry? - ✔✔Virginia, his first cousin What is prose? - ✔✔Writing in everyday language; written in paragraphs What is personification? - ✔✔Giving nonhuman things human characteristics What is a metaphor? - ✔✔A comparison not using like or as What is characterization? - ✔✔methods used by a writer to introduce or describe characters to readers What is foreshadowing? - ✔✔hints given that tell readers what may happen in the story What is a speaker? - ✔✔the narrator of a poem What does intemperance mean? - ✔✔excesive consumption of alcohol Does our narrator feel guilty for killing his wife? - ✔✔No Does our narrator feel guilty for killing Pluto? - ✔✔Yes Why does the narrator kill Pluto? - ✔✔Pluto loved him. He knew it was wrong. He knew it was a sin. Pluto did not give him a reason to do it.

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