Characters
Why does the narrator hate the old man?
What is because he hates the old man's "vulture" eye, which he believes is evil?
What is the exposition of this story? (setting, main characters, conflict)
What is the old man's house / bedroom; the narrator and the old man; and will the narrator get away with murder?
What does conceive mean?
What is to plan something in secret, or to think of an idea?
How does the narrator kill the old man?
What is that he suffocated him using his mattress?
What is the figurative language used here: "Death in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him."
What is Personification?
Who does the narrator confess to that he did the murder?
Who is to the police?
What is the climax of this story?
What is when the narrator yells, "Tear up the planks!" and confesses to the murder?
What does vex mean?
What is to annoy or bother another?
Why does the narrator confess?
What is because he heard the old man's heartbeat?
What is the figurative language here: "A ray of light, like the thread of a spider..."
What is Simile?
What does the narrator compare the eye to?
When does the narrator stalk the old man? (also setting)
What is at midnight?
Use acute in a sentence.
What is, I have an acute sense of smell?
Why do the police come?
What is because a neighbor heard a scream during the night?
What is the figurative language: "Yes, he was stone, stone dead."
What is Metaphor?
What behavior shows that the narrator is unstable?
What is that he watches the old man sleep every night for a week?
What is the resolution of this story?
What is that the narrator's guilt, manifested in the heartbeat of the old man, has given him away?
What is audacity?
What is boldness, daring, or nerve?
What has the madness done for the narrator's senses?
What is made them acute, or sharpened?
What is the figurative language: "I heard all things in the heavens, and in the earth."
What is Hyperbole?
Why did the old man wake up?
What is because he heard the noise of the narrator's finger slipping on the lantern cover?
Which day does the narrator kill the old man?
What is during the 8th night?
What is suavity?
What is charm, smoothness, or style / class?
What does the narrator want readers to believe?
What is that he is not mad or insane!
What is the figurative language: "Not destroyed, not dulled them."
What is Alliteration?