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Narrator
Old Man
C & C
Plot
Other
100
What vexes the narrator?
What is the old man's vulture eye.
100
Why does the old man wake up on the 8th night?
What is the narrator's thumb slipped on the tin fastening on the lantern.
100
Why is the narrator saying he has a disease that has sharpened his senses a contrast and contradiction?
What is diseases hurt us not help.
100
How does the narrator kill the old man?
What is he dismembers his body.
100
The narrator claims he can hear things in heaven and hell. What event in the story does this foreshadow?
What is he think he hears the old man's dead heart beat.
200
What does the narrator keep denying?
What is he is mad.
200
Why does the old man not know what the narrator is planning?
What is the narrator is nice to the old man the whole week before he kills him.
200
Why is loving the old man a contrast and contradiction?
What is we don't kill people we love.
200
What causes the narrator to finally kill the old man?
What is the narrator casts the light on the old man's eye.
200
What is the tone of "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
What is menacing, dangerous.
300
What does the narrator do every night?
What is he watches the old man sleep.
300
What does the old man ask when he wakes up during the night?
What is who's there?
300
Why is inviting the cops to search the house a contrast and contradiction?
What is you don't have the cops search a house after there's been a murder in it.
300
Why do the cops show up?
What is the neighbor heard a shriek.
300
What does the eye symbolize in the story?
What is evil or anger or insanity in the narrator.
400
What kind of man did the narrator say the old man had to be in order to suspect his plan?
What is a profound man.
400
What is one way the old man tries to comfort himself?
What is by saying it was the wind in the chimney.
400
Why is the narrator explaining how cleverly he watched the old man sleep a contrast and contradiction?
What is people don't watch/stalk others at night.
400
What does the narrator think the cops are doing towards him?
What is he thinks they are ridiculing him.
400
Why is the narrator an unreliable character?
What is he is insane and insane people don't think clearly.
500
How did the narrator know the old man's groan was a groan of mortal terror?
What is the narrator had experienced the same terror.
500
What is one way the old man tries to comfort himself?
What is by saying it was a mouse crossing the floor.
500
The narrator describes how cunningly he cuts up the old man's body. Why is that a contrast and contradiction?
What is people don't brag/boast about cutting up a body.
500
Why does the narrator not have to clean up any blood?
What is tub catches all of the blood.
500
Pacing is how fast or slow a story is moved along. How does Poe use pacing to create suspense in the story?
What is Poe lets the reader know the narrator's plan at the beginning of the story but takes a while to have the murder happen.