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Oval Portrait

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  • How many candles are in the candelabrum?
    5
  • Which option best describes the painter?
    obessed
  • Which character or characters are supportive?
    maiden/wife and Pedro
  • Which character from the story was moody?
    painter
  • What is a frame narrative?
    A story that contains another story
  • What is the setting of "The Oval Portrait"?
    A room within a chateau in the Apennines during the 1800's
  • What does the narrator find on a pillow?
    a book
  • Pedro took the narrator into the abandoned castle because
    He was wounded
  • What does the narrator find so interesting about the oval portrait?
    how life like it is
  • Which character from the story was famous?
    the narrator
  • Who said this in the story: “I sought eagerly the volume which discussed the paintings and their histories”
    the narrator
  • Why did he close his eyes when he saw the painting?
    make sure he was not delirious
  • Which character was jealous?
    wife/maiden
  • What did Poe write was happening to the wife to make her die?
    The painter was literally pulling the life out of her and putting it into the painting as he worked.
  • Who are the main characters from the story?
    The narrator, Pedro, the painter, and the woman from the portrait
  • Delirious describes which character?
    narrator
  • How does the narrator find out about the woman in the oval portrait?
    finds a book that tells him about the paintings
  • Who is telling this story?
    narrator
  • Which character was absorbed?
    narrator or painter
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