Plot
On the 8th night, the old man does this
Wakes up and asks who is there
The heartbeat symbolizes this emotion
Guilt
"His eye is like a vulture" is an example of what literary device?
Simile
This bothers the narrator about the old man
His eye
The police are at the narrators house because
a neighbor called about hearing a scream
"I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture..."
This quote is the reasoning behind what action of the narrator?
Why he murdered the old man.
The setting of the story is...
An old mans house, in his bedroom at night
The narrator confesses to the police because
He thinks the police hear the heartbeat as well
When the narrator enters the old mans room on the 8th night, he feels this way
Powerful, Confident
"And this I did for seven long nights- every night just at midnight- but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work..."
What is the narrators reasoning for not killing the old man sooner than the 8th night?
The eye was closed
"Death , in approaching him, and enveloped the victim." Is an example of which literary device
Personifcation
The madness has done this to the narrator senses
Sharpen them
The sound of the old mans heart underneath the floor
This quote is describing...
"...now I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch enveloped in cotton...
The sound of the old mans heart
"I heard things in heaven and earth. I heard many things in hell." This proves the narrator is
Unreliable
The narrator wants the reader to know what about him?
That he is not mad
The theme of the story is...
a guilty conscience is more powerful than you think
"I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture... Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees- very gradually- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man..."
Based on this quote, what emotion motivated the narrator's actions in the story
Being obsessed with the old mans eye
The narrator being confident when the police arrive then unraveling in the end with a confession is an example of....
irony
The old man feels fear throughout the story but the narrator feels
Anger, fury