VOCABULARY
A synonym for suffocate
What is Stifle?
Visually descriptive or figurative language that appeals to the five senses
What is Imagery?
The thing that truly bothers the narrator about the old man
What is the old man's eye?
Another word for mad
What is crazy?
The narrator claims he can hear this in paragraph 1
What is Heaven and Hell?
To irritate, annoy, provoke
What is Vex?
The perspective or viewpoint from which a story is being told
What is Point of View?
The sense the narrator says is superior to others
What is his Hearing?
A hint that something will happen in the future
What is Foreshadowing?
The location the body was hidden after being dismembered
Where is under the Floorboards?
Done in a secretive or sneaky manner
Stealthy
A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen next
What is Suspense?
The night the narrator finally decided to kill the old man
What is the 8th night?
The opposite of what you expect
What is Irony?
Where the narrator told the police the old man was
What is "absent in the country"?
A small crack
What is Crevice?
The point of view that gives readers insight into a narrator's mind
What is 1st person Point of View?
This explains how the narrator had access to the old man's home
What is he lives there?
A word to describe the narrator's behavior when the cops arrived
What is Confident, Calm, Content, Chill, Unaffected?
The "Tell-Tale Heart" is a play on this word that describes someone who tells on others
What is a Tattle Tale?
Sharp or intense (often used to describe senses)
Acute
Dialogue that individuals have with themselves
What is internal dialogue?
This explains why it took so long for the narrator to kill the old man
What is his eye was not open?
A noun for having the nerve or arrogance to do something bold
The beating heart that the narrator thinks he can hear is actually a symbol of this
What is his guilty conscience?