Edgar Allan Poe
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In "The Tell-Tale Heart" we have a narrator who is not credible and cannot be trusted. This is called what?
An unreliable narrator
A sentence must have these two parts.
Subject & Verb
The use of words that imitate sounds
Onomatopoeia
Death Watch
Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem is titled this.
"The Raven"
In "The Tell-Tale Heart" the narrator blames his desire to murder the old man on what?
The old man's "vulture eye"
A sentence must begin with this.
A capital letter
Personification
Sagacity
Wisdom
Edgar Allan Poe wrote stories and poems, but made most of his money as this.
Literary critic
The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is trying to convince us of one thing primarily. What is it?
That he is not "mad."
A sentence must have this at the end.
Punctuation.
Descriptions that appeal to the five senses
Imagery
Hearken!
Listen!
The Baltimore Ravens
What specific mental struggles can we infer that the narrator is suffering from?
Insomnia OR anxiety
The shortest sentence is this many words.
One
Exaggerated claims not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
Crevice
Edgar Allan Poe's literary archnemesis, who wrote his obituary, was named this.
Rufus Griswold
What emotion was the narrator feeling when he decided to let the police officers in and began to engage with them?
Pride OR triumph OR over-confidence
The name for a group of words that can stand alone as a sentence is this.
Independent clause
Allusion
Gesticulations
Gestures