Tell Tale Heart Vocabulary

Acute

• stopped

• How the reader feels about the text while reading.

• sensitive; sharp

• clarity, awareness of detail

Ceased

• stopped

• The qualities that make up a character's personality

• sensitive; sharp

• How the reader feels about the text while reading

Distinctiveness

• stopped

• Contemptuous ridicule or mockery

• sensitive; sharp

• clarity, awareness of detail

Derision

• stopped

• Contemptuous ridicule or mockery

• sensitive; sharp

• clarity, awareness of detail

Mood

• Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

• a speaker or character who tells a story

• give a brief statement of the main points of (something)

• How the reader feels about the text while reading

Tone

• Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

• The qualities that make up a character's personality

• the perspective from which a story is told

• a point of view or general standpoint from which different things are viewed, physically or mentally; the appearance to the eye of various objects at a given time, place, or distance

Point of View

• give a brief statement of the main points of (something)

• How the reader feels about the text while reading

• the perspective from which a story is told

• The qualities that make up a character's personality

Summarize

• How the reader feels about the text while reading

• give a brief statement of the main points of (something)

• The qualities that make up a character's personality

• the perspective from which a story is told

Character Traits

• the perspective from which a story is told

• Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

• The qualities that make up a character's personality

• a point of view or general standpoint from which different things are viewed, physically or mentally; the appearance to the eye of various objects at a given time, place, or distance

Narrator

• give a brief statement of the main points of (something).

• a speaker or character who tells a story

• The qualities that make up a character's personality

• Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character