Tell-Tale Heart
This point of view is used in The Tell-Tale Heart.
What is first-person point of view?
This character conducts the lottery each year.
Who is Mr. Summers?
Phineas Gage worked in this type of job.
What is railroad construction?
This literary element is the central message about life in a story.
What is theme?
This punctuation mark shows a pause in a sentence.
What is a comma?
The narrator says he killed the old man because of this feature.
What is the old man's eye?
The lottery takes place during this month.
What is June?
The accident occurred when this tool went through his head.
What is a tamping iron?
This skill means using clues and reasoning to figure something out that is not directly stated.
What is infer?
Commas are used to separate three or more items in this.
What is a series?
This sound causes the narrator to confess to the police.
What is what the narrator believes to be the beating of the old man’s heart?
This character complains that the lottery drawing was not fair.
Who is Tessie Hutchinson?
Scientists studied Phineas Gage because his accident helped them understand this.
What is the brain?
Evidence taken directly from a text to support an idea is called this.
What is textual evidence?
This punctuation mark uses three dots to show that words were omitted from a quotation.
What is an ellipsis?
The sound of the heart most strongly symbolizes this feeling.
What is guilt?
This object is used to hold the slips for the lottery drawing.
What is the black box?
After the accident, this aspect of Phineas changed significantly.
What is his personality or behavior?
This term refers to explaining how two texts are similar.
What is compare?
Commas are used to separate these phrases at the beginning of a sentence.
What are introductory phrases or clauses?
This character trait makes the narrator an unreliable narrator.
What is insanity (or madness)?
This theme is revealed through the events of the story.
What is blindly following traditions can be dangerous?
This doctor examined Phineas after the accident.
Who is Dr. Williams?
This term refers to explaining how two texts are different.
What is contrast?
This grammar term refers to a name used when directly speaking to someone in a sentence.
What is direct address?