Writer's Effect: The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe uses the em dash to create what in The Tell-Tale Heart?

• Irony

• Mood

• Imagery

• Symbolism

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Dashes are used by writers for what purpose?

• To cause a break in thought/add information.

• To create a subtle pause in a sentence.

• To explain something in more detail.

• To add a quotation.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Edgar Allan Poe uses one-word sentences to create what effect in The Tell-Tale Heart?

• Spooky effect

• Humorous effect

• Imaginary effect

• dramatic effect

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the purpose of the em dash in the following line from The Tell-Tale Heart?

"You should have seen how wisely I proceeded—with what caution— with what foresight—with what dissimulation I went to work!"

• To add a joke.

• To interrupt his thought process and create parallel thoughts.

• To convince the reader that the narrator is not mad.

• To convince the reader that the narrator is mad.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What literary technique is used in the following line from The Tell-Tale Heart?

"One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it."

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is the writer's use of the word "creaked" an example of?

"It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon 4 THE TELL-TALE HEART 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."

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Sibilance

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10