What is Horror Genre
The Tale Tell Heart
The Tale Tell Heart
Literary Criticism
Literary Elements
100

something, you make it grow in strength

intensified

100

 an idea, you think of.

 conceived

100

This person wrote the Tell Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

100

Literary Criticism 

an opinion, supported by evidence, relating to theme, style, setting or historical or political context

100

The attitude of the author as conveyed through the language

Tone

200

something, you prove it is right or valid.

intensified

200

If you do this to someone, you annoy that person.

vexed

200

What is the narrator’s reason for killing the old man?

 The old man’s eye reminds the narrator of a vulture’s.

200

the art or practice of judging and commenting on the qualities and character of literary works

Literary Criticism 
200

The way the author uses language to write a story

Style
300

things that have comparable or similar parts. 

 parallel

300

 If you do this to something, you smother it.

 stifled

300

If someone is this way, the person is false or deceptive.

 hypocritical

300

opinion of the material

controlling idea

300

The lesson or underlying meaning of a literary work

Theme

400

a search

quests

400

 a narrow crack

 crevice

400

If you do something like this, you do it with intense emotion.

 vehemently

400

writing that examines, analyzes, and interprets a particular work or an aspect of literature

Literary criticism

400
events that occur in a story

Plot

500

The person who wrote this essay

Sharon A. Russell

 

500

shameless daring or boldness

audacity

500

jeering laughter or ridicule.

derision

500

reason for writing

author’s purpose

500

the process by which the author introduces and describes the characters in a story

Characterization