The old man's bedroom is what kind of literary device?
A. setting
B. imagery
C. symbol
What is setting?
100
Which of the following words is a synonym for fluently?
A. slowly
B. inconsistently
C. smoothly
What is smoothly
100
Classify the pronoun I in the following sentence, " True -- nervous -- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am!"
A. First Person Personal
B. Second Person Personal
C. Third Person Personal
What is first person personal?
100
Why did the narrator want to kill the old man?
What is because of the old man's dreadful eye always starring at him?
100
Who wrote "The Tell- Tale Heart"?
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
200
From what point of view is the story told?
What is first person?
200
Which of the following words is not like the others?
A. dismembered
B. together
C. pull apart
What is together?
200
Classify the pronoun him in the following sentence, " I looked upon him while he slept."
A. First Person Personal
B. Second Person Personal
C. Third Person Personal
What is third person personal?
200
Where did the narrator hid the old man's body after he killed him?
What is under the floor of the old man's bedroom?
200
How many policemen showed up at the hows after the narrator killed the old man?
What is three policemen?
300
During what time of day each day does the narrator sneak into the old man's house?
What is at midnight?
300
Which of the following is an antonym for concealment?
A. visibly seen
B. inconsistently
C. hide
What is visibly seen?
300
Classify the pronoun his in the following sentence, " I turned the latch of his door."
A. Reflexive
B. Possessive
C. Third Person Personal
What is possessive?
300
How many nights did the narrator sneak into the old man's house before killing him?
What is eight nights?
300
What part of speech is the word vexed in the following sentence, " for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye"?
A. adverb
B. adjective
C. verb
What is a verb?
400
When does the climax of the story occur?
A. When the narrator stalks the old man
B. When the narrator confesses to the police and leads them to the body
C. When the narrator hides the old mans body
What is when the narrator confesses to the police and leads them to the old mans body?
400
In the sentence, " It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived it haunted me night and day,” what does conceived mean?
A. thought of
B. pay close attention to
C. smothered
What is thought of?
400
Classify the pronoun my in the following sentence, " Never before had I felt the extent of my powers, "
A. Second Person Personal
B. First Person Personal
C. Third Person Personal
What is first person personal?
400
Why did the police show up at the old man's house?
What is because the neighbors heard a scream or two coming from the house?
400
In the sentence, " All in vain; because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow," which literary device does Death represent?
A. an allusion
B. imagery
C. personification
What is personification?
500
Is the narrator the protagonist or antagonist of the story?
What is the protagonist?
500
Which word best completes this sentence, "I quietly and ____ opened the door,"?
A. vehemently
B. audaciously
C. stealthily
What is stealthily?
500
Classify the pronoun him in the following sentence, "All in vain; because Death, in approaching him, "
A. Third Person Personal
B. Second Person Personal
C. First Person Personal
What is third person personal?
500
Why did the old man wake up on the eight and final night?
What is because of the narrator's chuckling?
500
Which of the following is an example of irony?
A. the narrator stalked the old man every night at midnight.
B. The narrator like the old man, but seeks to kill him.
C. The narrator seems to place great emphasis on the "watch"
What is the narrator likes the old man, but seeks to kill him?