Tell Tale Heart/Fall of the House of Usher Vocabulary Quiz

Deadly, poisonious

• Pallid

• Vex

• Pestilent

• Negative

Pale

• Negative

• Pallid

• Climax

• Insipid

A bad character trait such as selfish or impolite

• Tottering

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Negative

Bold courage; nerve; shameless

• Climax

• Audacity

• Vex

• Tottering

The event that sets the story in motion, gets the party started

• Inciting Incident

• Ebon

• Insipid

• Pestilent

The end of the story; problem solved

• Scantlings

• Simile

• Munificent

• Resolution

The excessive anxiety about one's health

• Plot

• Inciting Incident

• Derision

• Hypochondriac

Deep lustrous black

• Munificent

• Ebon

• Conflict

• Climax

This describes a character on the inside

• Character Traits

• Exposition

• Hearkening

• Emaciated

Energetic hand or arm movements

• Cataleptic

• Gesticulations

• Resolution

• Plot