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Name___________________________________________________________________________________Period_______Edgar Allan Poe BiographyDirections: Answer the following questions based on your reading of Jane Runyon’s biography of Edgar Allan Poe. Write in complete sentences!! Underline in the text (of the biography) where you found your answers. Write the question number in the margin of the biography to indicate where the answer is. Remember, even for inference or analysis questions, the information you use to infer, analyze, etc. is in the text!!What are two reasons why John Allan cut off ties with Edgar?What was particularly strange about Poe’s marriage? According to the article, during what time in his life did Poe write some of his best work? Answer the following questions based on the author’s statement, “He used language in his poetry which dug into the soul of the reader,” a). How would you characterize Poe’s work?b). What literary techniques do you think Poe used in his poems/ short stories (refer to the excerpt from the Raven or think back to last year when you read “Annabelle Lee”)If Poe’s “tortured soul is on full display in his work,” what is the tone of his work and what mood do you think is created in the reader? ................
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