Vocabulary
Keen, sharp
What is acute?
The narrator's _______ sense is acute.
What is hearing?
"One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture-"
What is a metaphor?
What do we think about the narrator when he asks the officers to sit and rest on top of the hidden body?
He is confident.
The color of the old man's eye.
What is blue?
Synonym for small opening or crack
What is a crevice?
What is suffocation?
"I heard all things in the heaven and the earth. I heard many things in hell".
What is hyperbole?
Why don't the officers hear the heart?
The narrator is insane and is the only one who can hear the beating.
How many nights did he watch the old man?
8 nights
Complete the sentence: "..for it was not the old man who ________ me, but his Evil Eye.
What is vexed?
The hidden place of the old man's corpse.
What's under the floorboards?
"....because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim".
What is personification?
What does the beating represent?
The narrator's guilt.
What sound did the old man let out of fear?
A shriek
Antonym for increasing in size, becoming bigger
What is waned?
This line shows the old man comforting what emotion?
"It is nothing but the wind in the chimney-- it is only a mouse crossing the floor"
What is fear?
"Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold"
What is hyperbole?
When the narrator sneaks around, what does he feel?
He is sneaky and cunning to plan out the old man's murder.
"because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow.."
What is personification?
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 is concieved?
The intense beating getting louder.
What is the sound of the old man's heart?
"He shrieked once-once only"
What is onomatopoeia?
Why was the narrator upset with the police officers?
The narrator believed they were mocking him.
What does the narrator compare?
His madness and over-acuteness