"The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe Quiz, Close Reading, and Vocabulary Development Bundle

Evaluate reading comprehension, encourage critical thinking, prepare for unexpected absences, and eliminate take-home assessment planning with this bundle of materials for teaching the Gothic short story “The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allan Poe. Included are the following: a plot-based quiz, a close reading worksheet, a craft analysis activity, a vocabulary application exercise, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the public domain narrative, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will:

• Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly
• Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
• Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
• Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
• Discern the intended effects of the author’s stylistic choices
• Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
• Compare two characters
• Conduct brief research into Poe’s personal life to explain autobiographical parallels between the author and the plot of the text
• Apply knowledge of literary devices including alliteration, assonance, metaphor, simile, and more
• Support claims and inferences with sound logic and relevant evidence
• Write about Gothic fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision