This is the person who is narrating "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Who is the murderer?
100
Which word means to have decided on a plan of action?
derision, vexed, resolved, audacity, stealthily, cunning
What is resolved?
100
Why does the narrator fool the policemen before he confesses to the crime?
He acts calm and has a cheery disposition.
100
When Poe wrote, "He was stone, stone dead," he was using this type of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
200
This is the reason the narrator wants to kill the old man.
What is the narrator does not like to look at the old man's "evil eye?"
200
This word completes this sentence:
The killer felt the eye watched him with __________, or ridicule.
derision, vexed, resolved, audacity, stealthily, cunning
What is derision?
200
Why does the narrator chuckle at the old man's fear?
He is cruel, mean, etc.
200
When Poe wrote, "much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton," he was using this type of figurative language.
What is simile?
300
This is how the narrator kills the old man.
What is he smothers him with the mattress?
300
Which word means to be skillfully dishonest?
derision, vexed, resolved, audacity, stealthily, cunning
What is cunning?
300
How does the narrator's mood change while the policemen are there investigating the sound heard by neighbors.
He becomes more and more upset.
300
An example of alliteration is:
A. the hinges creaked
B. hideous heart
C. vulture eye
What is the hideous heart?
400
This is where the narrator takes the old man's body to dismember it.
Where is the tub?
400
This word completes this sentence:
The narrator had the _________________ to bring the police officers into the room where the dead body was located.
derision, vexed, resolved, audacity, stealthily, cunning
What is audacity?
400
What does the narrator believe that he hears later in the story? (This is a sound that no one else can hear.)
What is the beating of the old man's heart.
400
What is the "low, dull, quick, sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton?"
A. the sound of the old man breathing
B. the sound of a heart beating
C. the old man's shriek
What is the sound of a heart beating?
500
This is why the three policeman come to the old man's house at 4am.
What is a neighbor heard a shriek in the night and called them to investigate foul play?
500
This word completes this sentence:
The reason the narrator killed the old man is because he was so ________________ by his eye.
derision, vexed, resolved, audacity, stealthily, cunning
What is vexed?
500
Explain the difference between the reader's view of the narrator and the narrator's view of himself.
The reader realizes that the narrator is insane, but the narrator believes he is same.
500
The heartbeat symbolizes -
A. the old man's eye
B. the narrator's own guilt
C. a watch wrapped in cotton