The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

These flashcards cover key vocabulary terms from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Black Cat,' focusing on themes of morality, personal decline, and the consequences of violence.

Intemperance

Excessive indulgence, particularly in drinking alcohol, leading to a decline in morality and behavior.

Perverseness

A human impulse to engage in behavior that is contrary to one's own best judgment, doing wrong for its own sake.

Conflagration

A large and destructive fire that causes significant damage.

Atrocity

An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically involving physical violence or injury.

Phantasm

A figment of the imagination; an illusion or apparition.

Noxious

Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant.

Evoke

To bring or recall to the conscious mind, often used in the context of emotions or memories.

Remorse

Deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed.

Chimera

A mythical creature with parts from different animals, often used metaphorically to describe something illusory or hoped for that is impossible to achieve.

Malediction

A magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil or destruction.