Poe

Cayce S. (United States of America)
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  1. Pluto
    the god of the underworld in ancient mythology
    Pluto --this was the cat's name --was my favorite pet and playmate.
  2. narrator
    someone who tells a story
    Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the common-place --some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary

    What is the narrator talking about here?
  3. chimaera
    a grotesque product of the imagination
    I am almost ashamed to own --yes, even in this felon's cell, I am almost ashamed to own --that the terror and horror with which the animal inspired me, had been heightened by one of the merest chimaeras it would be possible to conceive.
  4. black cat
    large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
    Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat
    1843
    FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.
  5. domesticate
    make fit for cultivation and service to humans
    When it reached the house it domesticated itself at once, and became

    What is significant about the new cat and his markings?
  6. moodiness
    a sullen gloomy feeling
    The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind; while, from the sudden,


















    frequent, and ungovernable outbursts of a fury to which I now blindly abandoned myself, my uncomplaining wife, alas! was the most usual and the most patient of sufferers.
  7. Edgar Allan Poe
    United States writer and poet (1809-1849)
    Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat
    1843
    FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.
  8. equivocal
    open to two or more interpretations
    When reason returned with the morning --when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch --I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.
  9. deadly sin
    an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace
    One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; --hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; --hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; --hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin --a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it --if such a thing were possible --even beyond the reach of ...
  10. Poe
    United States writer and poet (1809-1849)
    Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat
    1843
    FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.
  11. partiality
    an inclination to favor one group or view over alternatives
    Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind.
  12. baroque
    relating to an elaborately ornamented style of art and music
    To me, they have presented little but Horror --to many they will seem less terrible than baroques.
  13. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
    To those who have cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable.
Created on Mon Mar 07 12:35:35 EST 2011

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