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The Tell-Tale Heart
Text Analysis
Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
Anything Goes!
100
The reason why the narrator panics at the end of the story.
What is the heart is thumping louder and he thinks the police know?
100
Writers often hook readers by using this which is a sense of excitement, fear, tension, or dread about what will happen next.
What is suspense?
100
cautiously; secretly
What is stealthily?
100
Sharp;keen.
What is acute?
100
What madness has don the the narrator.
What is sharpened his senses?
200
The reason why the narrator is proud of himself.
What is he tries to prove he is not insane?
200
Describing a character's fear, choosing vivid words, and repeating words or phrases are all techniques that this author uses to create suspense.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
200
with intense emotion
What is vehemently?
200
Smothered.
What is stifled?
200
A detail from the story that makes us not believe the narrator.
Answers may vary.
300
The reason why the narrator waits a week to kill the old man.
What is he needs to see the eye first?
300
In lines 1-16, details that make me suspicious of the narrator.
Answers will vary.
300
shamelessly daring or bold.
What is audacity?
300
to disturb; to annoy
What is vex?
300
This is how the narrator describes the old man's heart.
What is a ticking watch?
400
The reason the narrator is upset with the police.
What is he thinks they are mocking him?
400
In lines 79-83, details that make me suspicious of the narrator.
What is he says he hears the old man's heart, but this seems unlikely?
400
false or decptive
What is hypocritical?
400
a crack
What is crevice?
400
The reason why the narrator believe he will not be caught.
What is he thinks he is too clever and that he has destroyed all the evidence?
500
The reason why the narrator is proud after killing the old man.
What is he thinks no one will figure out what he did?
500
The main reason that the narrator is insane.
What is he murders someone for an irrational reason and expresses no remorse?
500
ridicule
What is derision?
500
to think of
What is conceive?
500
The reason why the narrator wants to kill the old man.
What is his eye?