Narrator
The point of view in which this story is told
What is first person?
The literary device used with "the eye of a vulture"
What is figurative language?
To think of an idea
What is conceive?
What is the old man's eye?
What the narrator mean when he says "the disease had sharpened my senses-not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute."
What is he can hear everything?
The readers learn this from a first person narrator
The literary device used with "I undid the lantern cautiously - oh, so cautiously - cautiously"
What is repetition?
To bother and annoy
What is to vex?
The narrator does this every night
What is the narrator watches the old man sleep?
What the narrator mean when he says "He was still sitting up in the bed listening, - just as I have done, night after night hearkening to the death watches in the wall."
What is he heard tapping in the walls every night?
The narrator fears this
What is the vulture eye?
The literary device used for Death in the passage "because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him"
What is personification?
to smother something
What is to stifle?
The narrator waits to kill the old man because of this
What is the eye was closed every night?
What the narrator creates when he says "It increase my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage."
What is suspense?
The narrator's opinion of himself
What is the narrator's senses have sharpened from the "disease" and he is not a madman but wise and cautious?
The literary device used in the passage "I saw it with perfect distinctness - all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones; but I could see nothing else of the old man's face or person: for I had directed the ray as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot."
What is a imagery?
To do with intense passion
What is vehmently?
They are knocking at the door
Who is the police?
What the narrator creates when he says "It was open - wide, wide open - and I grew furious as I gazed upon it."
What is a tense mood?
At first the narrator feels this way, but begins to feel this way
What is the narrator is at ease and feels confident that no one knows his crime, but he becomes nervous and guilty?
What is the literary device used in the passage "Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! - it is the beating of his hideous heart!"
What is irony?
Jeering laughter or ridicule
What is derision?
The narrator hears this and does this
What is he hears the beating heart and confesses to his crimes?
What the narrator feels when he says "I fancied a ringing in my ears: but still they sat and still chatted. The ringing became more distinct: - it continued and became more distinct: I talked more freely to get rid of the feeling: but it continued and gained definitiveness-"
What is guilt?