The Tell Tale Heart

Why did the author most likely choose to tell the story from the first-person point of view?

• To highlight the narrator's need to convince us and himself that he is not insane AKA crazy

• To make details of the murder more realistic.

• to create drama and suspense

• telling the story in third person would make the story slow and BORING

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Draw a picture showing what happened at the end of the Tell Tale Heart

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

The author, ______________ , wrote The Tell Tale Heart.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is most likely the authors purpose in capitalizing the word "Death" in the paragraph 7?

"...He had been saying to himself- "It is nothing but the wind in the chimney- it is only a mouse crossing the floor," or. "It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp." "Yes, he has been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions; but he had found all in vain. All in vain; because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel- although he neither saw nor heard- to feel the presence of my head within the room."

• The author is emphasizing just how near the old man's death is.

• The author is emphasizing the finality of the old man losing his life.

• The author is speaking metaphorically, comparing Death to a shadow.

• The author is speaking about the narrator as a representative of death.

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Which of the following words BEST replaces sagacity, in the passage below?

Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine. Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers- of my sagacity.

• stupidity

• righteousness

• determination

• cleverness

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The sound of the old man's heart most likely symbolizes....

• the revenge of the old man

• the knowledge of the police

• the guilt of the narrator

• the sadness of the narrator

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2