Vocabulary
Find a synonym of keen, sharp
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acute
The narrator's _______ sense is acute.
hearing
"He had the eye of a vulture-"
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Metaphor
What is the narrator portraying when he asks the officers to sit and rest on top of the hidden body?
Confidence
What does the narrator mean by:
"A tub caught all -- ha! ha!"?
He dismembered the old man inside a (bath) tub and no blood was spilled.
Synonym for small opening or crack
crevice
The old man is killed by ____________.
suffocation
"I heard all things in the heaven and the earth. I heard many things in hell".
Hyperbole
Why don't the officers hear the heart?
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The narrator is insane and is the only one who can hear the beating.
Why is the Evil Eye capitalized?
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It is being named as if it were a separate entity from the old man.
It could be considered the antagonist in this story.
Complete the sentence: "..for it was not the old man who ________ me, but his Evil Eye.
What does it mean?
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vexed
annoy, frustrate
Where, to whom, and when is the protagonist telling the story?
Probably at a police station, jail, or a mental hospital.
To the reader, who is taking the role of an interrogator/an inmate/a nurse...
After the deed.
"(...) because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim".
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Personification
What does the heart beating represent?
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The narrator's guilt.
What arguments does the narrator present to prove he is not mad?
His senses have been heightened, not dulled.
He acted smartly, sneakily, carefully.
He was wise.
Antonym for increasing in size, becoming bigger
waned
What is unorthodox about the resolution of this story?
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It carries as much tension as the climax.
"Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold"
Hyperbole
When the narrator sneaks around, what does he feel?
He is sneaky and cunning to plan out the old man's murder.
What does dissemble mean? (penultimate line)
pretend, conceal your true feelings or beliefs
Fill in the blank: "It is impossible to sat how first the idea entered my brain; but once ___________, it haunted me day and night".
What does it mean?
conceived
What is the climax in the story?
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The protagonist kills the old man.
"He shrieked once-once only"
Onomatopoeia
Why was the narrator upset with the police officers?
The narrator believed they were mocking him.
What is the meaning of tattoo in this text?
"Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased."
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A drum or bugle that calls soldiers to their quarters.