Vocabulary (from story)
This "s" word from the text means cleverness.
What is sagacity?
Age of his wife when she passed away.
What is 24?
This is the part of the plot outline that happens when the narrator kills the old man.
What is the climax?
The reason the narrator kills the old man.
What is his "vulture-like" eye?
The point of view that the story is told in.
What is first person?
This "s" word from the text means enough.
What is sufficient?
The name of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem.
What is "The Raven"?
This is the part of the plot diagram that happens when the narrator spies on the old man.
What is the rising action?
The length of time it takes the narrator to put his head through the opening of the door when he's spying on the old man.
What is an hour?
The tense the story is told in.
What is past?
This "a" word from the text means boldness.
What is audacity?
The year Poe was born.
This is the part of the plot diagram that happens when the police arrive and he shows them around.
What is falling action?
The time that the narrator spies on the old man each night.
What is midnight?
He represents "Death" in the story.
Who is the narrator? OR Who is the murderer?
This "a" word from the text means intelligent.
What is acute?
Number of copies of Edgar Allan Poe's first book that still exist.
What is twelve?
This is the part of the plot diagram that happens when the narrator confesses.
What is the resolution?
The number of nights the narrator spies on the old man BEFORE the night he murders him.
What is seven?
The heartbeat sound at the end of the story symbolizes this.
What is guilt?
This "p" word from the text means wise.
What is profound?
The profession of his two biological parents.
What are actors?
"True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story."
What is the exposition?
The old man says this after he hears the narrator's thumb slip on the tin fastening of the lantern.
"Who's there?"
Some examples of this literary element from the story are guilt, love vs. hate, and madness.
What are themes?