Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Sentence
Literary Devices
Vocabulary
100
Edgar Allan Poe was only this old when he died. 

Forty

100

In "The Tell-Tale Heart" we have a narrator who is not credible and cannot be trusted.  This is called what?

An unreliable narrator

100

A sentence must have these two parts. 

Subject & Verb

100

The use of words that imitate sounds

Onomatopoeia

100

Death Watch 

A type of beetle that lives in the walls
200

Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem is titled this. 

"The Raven"

200

In "The Tell-Tale Heart" the narrator blames his desire to murder the old man on what?

The old man's "vulture eye"

200

A sentence must begin with this. 

A capital letter

200
Giving nonhuman objects human qualities

Personification


200

Sagacity

Wisdom

300

Edgar Allan Poe wrote stories and poems, but made most of his money as this. 

Literary critic

300

The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is trying to convince us of one thing primarily.  What is it?

That he is not "mad."

300

A sentence must have this at the end. 

Punctuation. 

300

Descriptions that appeal to the five senses

Imagery

300

Hearken!

Listen!

400
This professional football team is named after Edgar Allan Poe's works (city and team).

The Baltimore Ravens

400

What specific mental struggles can we infer that the narrator is suffering from?

Insomnia OR anxiety

400

The shortest sentence is this many words. 

One

400

Exaggerated claims not meant to be taken literally

Hyperbole

400

Crevice

Small space
500

Edgar Allan Poe's literary archnemesis, who wrote his obituary, was named this. 

Rufus Griswold

500

What emotion was the narrator feeling when he decided to let the police officers in and began to engage with them?

Pride OR triumph OR over-confidence

500

The name for a group of words that can stand alone as a sentence is this. 

Independent clause

500
Direct or implied reference to people, places, events, literary works, or artworks

Allusion

500

Gesticulations

Gestures