The Tell Tale Heart

Burden means...

• den
• habit
• brush
• weight

Ominous means...

• curious
• thrilling
• humorous
• threatening

To ponder something means to...

• read a book about it
• write a poem about it
• talk to others about it
• think carefully about it

To cease means to...

• rise
• stop
• push 
• tease

Dread means...

• fear
• doubt
• anger
• sorrow

If someone is a prophet, it means the person...

• protects people from harm
• pretends to know all the answers
• predicts what will happen in the future
• practices in order to be the best at something

To suspect means to...

• make a mistake about something important
• refuse to believe that something could be true
• stay away from something that could be dangerous
• believe something could be different from what it seems

Relevance means that something is...

• valuable and worth a lot of money
• confusing and difficult to understand
• important and connects to something else
• repeated many times to make its meaning clear

The main character is the

• old man
• narrator
• police officer
• the heart

What had the madness done for the narrator's senses?

• dulled them
• sharpened them
• destroyed them
• decreased them