Poe's Writer's Voice

Poe's Writer's Voice

7th Grade · ELA · 55 min

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Learning Objective

I can identify elements of Edgar Allan Poe's writer's voice.

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    Gothic literature is an extreme form of Dark Romanticism, often described as macabre, with plots involving madness or death.

  • 2

    Horace Walpole wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, in 1764, while Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818.

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    Edgar Allan Poe, often called the Father of Gothic literature, wrote poems like The Raven and short stories like The Fall of the House of Usher.