Edgar Allan Poe

And the psychology of fear

What are some of your fears?

Fears vs. Phobias

• Fear: a distressing emotion aroused by

impending danger, evil, pain, etc.,

whether the threat is real or imagined

• Phobia: a persistent, irrational fear of a

specific object, activity, or situation

that leads to a compelling desire to

avoid it.

Types of Horror Movies

• Slasher/Gory

• Supernatural

• Monster

• Realistic

• Psychological

6 Basic Fearshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-

VWxQs5X1hw

Do the fears on your list match or

relate to the six basic fears? Star the

ones that do.

Edgar Allan Poe

“The Father of psychological

horror”

The Black Cat

Literary Devices: Allusion

• A brief, usually indirect reference to a

person, place, or event--real or fictional.

• According to their content, allusions

may be historical, cultural, mythological,

literary, political, or private.

Allusions in Rap Songs

“The side lines is lined with casualties

Who sip the life casually,

then gradually become worse

Don’t bite the apple, Eve”

-Jay-Z Empire State of Mind

Everybody wanna be the king then shots

ring

you laying on your balcony with holes in

your dream

-Jay Z Most Kingz

Anyway I think I met him some time before,

in a different life of where I record.

I mean he was Adam, I think I was Eve

but my vision ends with an apple on the

tree.....

-Nicki Minaj Your Love

And assemble our own army

To disarm this Weapon of Mass

Destruction

That we call our President, for the present

-Eminem Mosh

Allusion Sentence Starters

• Poe chooses the name Pluto for the

cat because…

• Poe mentions superstitions about the

black cat because…

• These allusions help me understand

the story better because…

Suspense

• A feeling or state of nervousness or

excitement caused by wondering

what will happen.

• Suspense VIne

• Foreshadowing: The author gives the reader

a hint of something that is going to happen

without revealing the story.

• Pacing: The rate at which the reader reads,

the speed at which the events occur and

unfold.

• Unreliable Narrator: A narrator who can't be

trusted. Either from ignorance or self-

interest, this narrator speaks with a bias,

makes mistakes, or even lies.

Foreshadowing: Examples

• “Yet mad I am not- and very surely do

I not dream. But tomorrow I die and

today I unburden my soul.”

• “I suffered myself to use intemperate

language to my wife. At length I even

offered her personal violence.”

• “If I arose to walk it [the cat] would

get between my feet and thus nearly

throw me down.”

Pacing: Examples

• “I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable,

more regardless of the feelings of others.”

• “I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise

violently ill use it; but gradually - very gradually -

I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing.”

• “The second and the third day passed, and still

my tormentor came not.”

Unreliable Narrator: Examples

• “Mad indeed would I be to expect, in a case

where my very senses reject their own

evidence.”

• “Beneath the pressure of torments such as

these, the feeble remnant of the good within

me succumbed. Evil thoughts became my

sole intimates - the darkest and most evil of

thoughts.”

• “Of my own thoughts it is folly to speak.”