By telling this story from the murderer's point of view, the author helps the reader

In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the author describes the sound that narrator hears beneath the floorboards as a heartbeat. This is a symbol of what human emotion?

Read the excerpt below. What can you infer the meaning of the word audacity is?

I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. QUESTION: What is the meaning of audacity?

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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 that vexed me, but his Evil Eye.

QUESTION: What can you infer the meaning of the word vexed is?

In "The Tell-Tale Heart," this sentence is most likely used to reveal that the narrator---?

"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..."

What character trait does the narrator convey through this sentence?

"I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle..."

Which statement from the text in "The Tell-Tale Heart" proves that the narrator feels guilty?

Read the excerpt (short selection) below. Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief--oh no!--it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart. Question: What conclusion can you draw about the narrator?

All of the following are true about the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" EXCEPT

Read the excerpt below. TRUE!--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed--not dulled them. QUESTION: Which of the following would you infer about the narrator's character?

Which of the following lines creates the most suspense?

Read the excerpt below. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! QUESTION: WHAT TYPE OF CHARACTERIZATION IS THE ABOVE AN EXAMPLE OF?

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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 has 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. QUESTION: What is the narrator's tone?

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I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not. 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 had 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. QUESTION: What is the mood of the passage?

Select the words that best support a confident tone.

What is the setting of The Raven?

At first, the speaker in "The Raven" thinks the noise he hears is —

The speaker in "The Raven" can best be described as a —

What happens when the speaker in "The Raven" opens the door?

The raven perched itself on the "pallid bust of Pallas." This reference would be considered a/an

What is an example of personification in Stanza 2 of "The Raven?"

(Hint: relating a non-human object to human)

"Doubting, daring dreams that no other mortal ever dared before" is an example of

"Open here I flung the shutter, when with many a flirt and flutter" is an example of