VOCABULARY
A synonym for suffocate
What is Stifle?
Visually descriptive or figurative language that appeals to the five senses
What is Imagery?
The thing that truly bothers the narrator about the old man
What is the Eye?
An adjective for pretending to have higher standards than you actually have
What is Hypocritical?
The narrator claims he can hear this in paragraph 1
What is Heaven and Hell?
To irritate, annoy, provoke
What is Vex?
The perspective or viewpoint from which a story is being told
What is Point of View?
The sense the narrator says is superior to others
What is his Hearing?
A hint that something will happen in the future
What is to Foreshadowing?
The location the body was hidden after being dismembered
Where is under the Floorboards?
To form a plan in the mind
What is Conceive?
A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen next
What is Suspense?
When is the 8th night?
The punctuation used by Edgar Allen Poe to indicate the narrator was nervous
What are dashes?
Where the narrator told the police the old man was
What is "absent in the country"?
A small crack
What is Crevice?
The point of view that gives readers insight into a narrator's mind
What is 1st person Point of View?
When the reader knows something that the characters do not
What is Dramatic Irony?
A word to describe the narrator's behavior when the cops arrived
What is Confident, Calm, Content, Chill, Unaffected?
The "Tell-Tale Heart" is a play on this word that describes someone who tells on others
What is a Tattle Tale?
A synonym for ridicule, mockery
What is Derision?
Dialogue that individuals have with themselves
What is internal dialogue?
The opposite of what you expect
What is Situational Irony/Irony?
A noun for having the nerve or arrogance to do something bold
A simile that the author used to describe the heartbeat
What is "...such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton"?