"The Tell-Tale Heart" Selection Test Review

What is irony?

• A lie.

• A huge exaggeration.

• When something does not go your away.

• A contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens.

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How does Poe create irony in the story?

• The narrator's attempts to hide the murder actually result in giving himself up to the police.

• The narrator chooses to commit the murder in the middle of the night, when the old man is asleep.

• The narrator admits that he could not stop thinking about the old man and about his pale, filmy eye.

• The narrator goes into the old man's room several nights in a row.

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How does Poe create irony in the story?

• The narrator's neighbor hears the old man shriek and summons the police out of concern for his safety.

• The narrator tells the police that the old man is on a trip.

• The more the narrator insists that he is not mad, the more readers can detect evidence of his madness.

• The story is told from first-person point of view.

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What is foreshadowing?

• When the reader can hear a narrator's thoughts.

• A warning or indication of a future event

• When things don't go don't go your way.

• Keeping you on the edge of your seat.

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How does Poe use foreshadowing in "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

• The narrator claims he has a sharpened sense of hearing and the old man's heartbeat eventually drives the narrator to kill him.

• The narrator claims he is not mad, but he is mad.

• The narrator thinks he got away with the crime and then the police arrive.

• The narrator is quiet each night, but the old man wakes up anway.

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How does Poe create suspense in the text?

• By describing a character's anxiety and fear, including supernatural elements, and jump scares.

• By using vivid words and language, jump scares, and using repetition.

• By using repetition, describing a character's anxiety, and including supernatural elements.

• By using vivid words, repetition, and describing a character's anxiety.

• B

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In the following excerpt, how does Poe create suspense?

I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it feel upon me, my blood ran cold.

• By identifying the source of the narrator's irrational fear

• By explaining why the narrator wants to avoid the old man

• By describing how unhealthy the old man looks to the narrator

• By repeating words to emphasize the narrator's skill as a crimnal

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How does Poe create suspense in this paragraph?

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it—oh, so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, so that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly—very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man’s sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Ha!—would a madman have been so wise as this? And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously—oh, so cautiously—cautiously (for the hinges creaked)—I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights—every night just at midnight—but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye. And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldly into the chamber, and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he had passed the night. So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept.

• By explaining the narrator's reasons for the murder.

• By showing the narrator's repetitive actions.

• By having the narrator repeat the old man's words.

• By describing the narrator's anxiety and fear.

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Which quote supports your answer?

• I moved it slowly- very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep.

• And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it-oh, so gently!

• ...and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.

• ...I went boldly into the chamber, and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he had passed the night.

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When the narrator describes his cleanup and first encounter with the police, what is his tone?

• anxious

• confident

• indifferent

• melancholy

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