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Edgar Allan Poe 4.
Mgr. Helena Slaninová
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2. Edgar Allan Poe
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3. Answer the questions 1. ) What was his nationality?
2. ) What was his profession?
a.) b.) c.)
3. ) What kind of literature did he write?
a.) b.) c.) d.)
4.) Was he a successfull student at University of Virginia and West Point?
5. ) What do you know about his personal life?
a.) addictions b.) cause of death
6.) Who did he marry and how did she die?
7.) Can you describe the themes he uses the most in his books?
a.) b.) c.)

4. Answer the questions 8.) What kind of movement was he a part of?
9. ) What two elements does gothic style combine?
a.) b.)
10.) Can you characterize his main heroes?
11.) Can you name at least 4 tales he wrote?
12.) Can you name 3 other works by Edgar Allan Poe?
13.) Was he involved in journalism as well?
14.) Why do you think he is still so popular nowadays?
15.) Can you name 1 book you read and express your opinion about it?

5. Answers 1. ) What was his nationality? - American
2.) What was his profession?
a.) writer b.) poet c.) editor (d.) literary critic
3.) What kind of literature did he write?
a.) tales of mystery
b.) detective-fiction genre
c.) satires
d.) fiction works
(e.) humour tales, essays of literary criticism
4.) Was he a successfull student at University of Virginia and West Point?
Didn´t finish any of them.
5. ) What do you know about his personal life?
a.) addictions – alcohol, drugs
b.) cause of death – unknown but could be caused by alcohol, cholera, drugs, heart disease…

6. Answers 6.) Who did he marry and how did she die?
His 13-year- old cousin Virginia Clemm, she died early of tuberculosis
7.) Can you describe the themes he uses the most in his books?
a.) question of death b.) premature burial
c.) reanimation of the dead and mourning
8.) What kind of movement was he a part of?
American Romantic Movement (dark romanticism)
9. ) What two elements does gothic style combine?
a.) elements of horror b.) romance
10.) Can you characterize his main heroes?
Lonely and unhappy characters who lost their loved ones and from some reason may keep on seeing them, or people with remorses who did something bad.
Plus students´own answers.

7. Answers 11.) Can you name at least 4 tales he wrote?
The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum…
12.) Can you name 3 other works by Edgar Allan Poe?
Tamerlane and Other Poems, Al Aaraaf, Annabel Lee, To Helen, Tamerlane, The Raven, Politician…
13.) Was he involved in journalism as well?
He wrote for periodicals.
14.) Why do you think he is still so popular nowadays?
Students´own answers.
15.) Can you name 1 book you read and express your opinion about it?

8. Použité zdroje
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Text – autorka DUMu Mgr. Helena Slaninová