Tell-Tale Heart
The point of view from which the story is told.
What is first person?
The country in which the story takes place.
What is England?
The town in which the story takes place.
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
The year in which everybody is finally equal?
What is 2081?
A brief, often humorous story told to illustrate a moral.
What is a fable?
The part of the victim's body that bothered the killer.
What is his pale blue eye?
The animal that went missing in the story.
What is the race horse, Silver Blaze?
The animal the stranger's staff resembles.
What is a snake?
The names of Harrison Bergeron's parents.
What are Hazel and George?
The events that make up a story, or the main part of a story.
What is plot?
The killer did this immediately after murdering his victim.
What is dismembered him?
This poison was administered to the stable boy.
What is opium mixed in with his dinner meal?
Goodman Brown’s wife’s name.
What is Faith?
Harrison's parents were watching this on TV.
What are ballerinas dancing?
The central character or leading figure in poetry, novel or any other story around whom the story evolves.
Who is the protagonist?
The killer placed his chair here during the interrogation.
What is on the floor over the body under the floorboards?
The occupation of the person murdered.
What is horse trainer?
The individual to whom the ceremony in the woods is dedicated.
Who is the devil?
Harrison Bergeron proclaims to be this to the people at the television studio.
What is "I am the emperor?"
That particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point.
What is the climax?
This drove the killer to confess.
What is the sound of the beating heart?
The killer.
Who is Silver Blaze?
The power the devil promises to give his communicants.
What is the ability to look directly into the human heart to reveal its most carefully hidden secrets?
This happened to Harrison Bergeron and his "Empress" at the end of the story.
What is they were shot dead by the Handicapper General?
The main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly.
What is the theme?