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Reading Strategy
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Comprehension
Mood and Tone
100
It involves reading the title and quotations as well as looking at illustrations. An educated guess.
What is predicting?
100
urged
What is bade?
100
to annoy or make angry
What is vex?
100
The room where the crime was committed.
Who is the old man's bedroom?
100
Author's attitude
What is tone?
200
It's the highest level of thinking, or ownership.
What is synthesis or synthesizing?
200
what the narrator did with the body.
What is reposed?
200
very bold acting
What is audacity?
200
In the story, mostly 1st, but a bit of second person.
What is the narration of the story?
200
At least one word that describes the mood of the story The Tell-Tale Heart
What is creepy, scary, mysterious?
300
A short version of the main ideas.
What is summarizing?
300
Very polite
What is suavity?
300
A feeling of...WOW.
What is awe?
300
The reason why the narrator killed the old man.
What is because of his "evil" eye?
300
At least one element that contributes to the mood of a story.
What is setting, language, descriptive details?
400
To make a decision about the plot, setting, or characters from clues you pick up, by reading between the lines.
What is inference?
400
insult; mockery
What is derision?
400
bits or pieces
What is scantlings?
400
The reason why the police came to the old man's house.
What is because a neighbor reported screaming?
400
What the heart symbolizes.
What is the narrator's guilt?
500
To see the events unfold in your mind, to help make meaning about what you are reading.
What is envisioning?
500
clear, good judgment
What is sagacity?
500
What is thoughtful regard for the future?
Foresight
500
The reason why the narrator confesses of his crime.
What is because the noise he hears is unbearable?
500
Part of the plot map where the narrator introduces himself, and tells us he's not mad, but quite sane.
What is the expostion?