Vocabulary
A word that means "wrap up, cover, or surround completely."
What is envelop?
The name of Poe's "double-fiancee" who he got engaged to twice.
What is Elmira Shelton?
The literary term shown in the phrase: If you keep running and running and running but getting nowhere, you will go mad.
What is repetition?
{What are being beaten to death, alcoholism, cooping, or a brain tumor?}
What an acuteness of the senses means.
The meaning of conjured.
What is to call upon something so that it might appear?
The name of Poe's most famous dark poem.
The literary term shown in the words: a dark, dreary day.
What is an alliteration?
The artistic work you'd compare "The Tell-Tale Heart" to and why.
{What is, undoubtedly, something soooooo spooky? 0-0}
How second person pronouns are included in the narration.
What is the narrator telling his story to someone within the world of the short story?
The word meaning "the state, fact, quality, or condition of being singular."
What is singularity?
What is godfather?
The literary term found in the phrase: As Lady Liberty welcomes the lost, so too do I welcome the confused.
What is a simile?
Explain in two complete sentences how it feels to read a story from a murderer's point of view.
{SPOOK}?
The night when the narrator committed the murder.
What is the eighth night?
The meaning of supposition.
What is something that is supposed/assumed?
The school Poe was kicked out of for skipping classes and drills for a week.
What is West Point?
The literary term shown in the phrase: Bread really was his Achilles' heel, you know.
What is an allusion?
Explain three methods of building suspense that Poe uses in "The Tell-Tale Heart".
What are all of these spooky ways?
The two ways a narrator can be proven to be unreliable.
What is their lying to us or their credibility/senses being doubted?
The meaning of dithering.
What is being indecisive?
The name of Poe's first short story collection.
What is Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque?
The literary term shown in the phrase: John Pork pet the dog kindly when nobody was looking.
What is indirect characterization?
Explain the three main points of your essay!
{Do you remember them?}
Write out a very suspenseful sentence of your own.
What is the spookiest thing in the world?