3º Ano - Ensino Médio - Noturno - Inglês - Compreensão escrita (leitura).

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer and critic famous for his dark, mysterious poems and stories, including ‘The Raven,’ ‘The Black Cat’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’ 

Who Was Edgar Allan Poe? 

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. Many of Poe’s works, including “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” became literary classics. Some aspects of Poe’s life, like his literature, is shrouded in mystery, and the lines between fact and fiction have been blurred substantially since his death. Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe never really knew his parents — Elizabeth Arnold Poe, a British actress, and David Poe, Jr., an actor who was born in Baltimore. His father left the family early in Poe's life, and his mother passed away from tuberculosis when he was only three. Separated from his brother William and sister Rosalie, Poe went to live with John and Frances Allan, a successful tobacco merchant and his wife, in Richmond, Virginia. Edgar and Frances seemed to form a bond, but he had a more difficult relationship with John Allan. Poe was overcome by grief following her death, and although he continued to work, he suffered from poor health and struggled financially until his death in 1849. Poe self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. His second poetry collection, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, was published in 1829. As a critic at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond from 1835 to 1837, Poe published some of his own works in the magazine, including two parts of his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. https://www.biography.com/writer/edgar-allan-poe Acesso em 04/09/2020. 140

01 – What stories did Edgar Allan Poe write? 

02 – WHEN and WHERE was he born? 

03 – Find in the texts the false cognates . In other words, palavras em que a grafia se parece com a LÍngua Portuguesa mas o significado não é igual. 

04 – What does the expression "self-published" mean? 

05 – In week 1 and 2 we studied two biographies. Write in small lines your own biography . As the actions are maybe already finished, you should use the verbs in the simple past.