The Tell-Tale Heart

What is the CLIMAX of the story?

• The narrator kills the old man.

• The narrator tells he is not mad.

• The narrator sees the "evil eye" on the 8th night.

• The police showing up to investigate the scream that the neighbor hears.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Hypocritical mean

• false or deceptive

• very large in size.

• shameless daring.

• annoying and mean.

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What does the narrator say that his disease has done to him?

• sharpened his senses

• made him nervous

• turned him into a murdered

• caused him to lie

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The narrator waits how many nights before killing the old man?

• 5 nights

• 2 nights

• 7 nights

• 6 nights

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CCSS.RL.6.6

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What does STIFLE mean?

• smother

• frighten

• shout

• surprise

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CCSS.RL.8.4

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CCSS.RL.7.4

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What point of view is "The Tell-Tale Heart" told in?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

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CCSS.RL.7.6

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The narrator didn't kill the old man right away because

• he waits for the darkest night of the week.

• enjoys frightening the old man many times.

• says that he must see the old man's "vulture eye" first.

• feels guilty about taking a human life.

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Conceive means

• to think of it.

• to tell about it.

• to dream about it.

• to walk toward it.

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The narrator comes across as an unreliable narrator when

• he explains he didn't kill the old man for his money.

• describes his movements on the night of the murder.

• says he is sane, but then describes how he cleverly hid the body.

• confesses that he is nervous.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

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A crevice is

• a marsupial.

• a dishonest person.

• a narrow crack.

• a fruit found in the tropics.

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CCSS.RL.8.4

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