WorksheetsTell-Tale Heart Vocab/Reading Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
If you __________ someone, you annoy that person.
stifle
hypocrite
conceive
vex
Which word means a narrow crack?
Crevasse
Crevice
Vehement
Stifle
______________________ is jeering laughter or ridicule.
Derision
Hypocrite
Audacity
Suspense
An unreliable narrator is.....
A third person narrator/outside observer
Edgar Allan Poe
A first person narrator who is very trustworthy
A narrator whose assessment of events cannot be trusted for some reason
___________________________ is shameless daring or boldness.
Hypocritical
Audacity
Vex
Suspense
If you ________________ something, you smother it.
vex
stifle
vehement
conceive
Which word means doing something with intense emotion?
Vehemently
Hypocritically
Suspensefully
Vexingly
When you _______________ an idea, you think of it.
vex
stifle
conceive
vehement
If a person is false or deceptive, they are a....
vex
first person narrator
hypocrite
main character
Which word describes the growing tension, fear, and excitement felt by the reader during "The Tell-Tale Heart?"
Suspense
Derision
Vehement
Audacity
True or False: The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is an unreliable narrator because he is mad/insane.
True
False
The narrator claimed that the disease actually made his senses
sharper
duller
Who could hear the old man's heartbeat from beneath the floorboards?
The police
The neighbors
The narrator
Edgar Allan Poe
How does the narrator feel towards the old man?
The narrator has always hated the old man.
The old man has never wronged the narrator, and he actually claims to love the old man.
The narrator doesn't care about the old man.
The narrator thinks the old man is going to kill him.
How does the narrator murder the old man?
He cuts his head off.
He suffocates him with a heavy mattress.
He shoots him.
He buries the old man alive.
