"The Tell-Tale Heart" Review
Across
- 3. a rhythmic tapping or drumming
- 4. The narrator says he treats the old man with ___ the week before the murder.
- 6. The old man dies from _____.
- 8. Which of the narrator's senses does he say is most acute?
- 11. The narrator insists that he is not ____ in the first paragraph.
- 12. The narrator uses this item to kill the old man.
- 16. What sound does the old man make when he wakes up, that makes the narrator pity him?
- 17. This type of irony is used when the reader knows the narrator is mad, but the narrator argues he is sane
- 18. The narrator thinks he hears this at the end of the story.
- 19. The sound of the dead man's beating heart could symbolize the murderer's __.
- 21. This type of irony is used when the narrator says, "I loved the old man."
- 22. A person who has great knowledge or insight
- 24. The narrator admits to feeling ___ in the first paragraph of the story.
- 25. The narrator worries that the ____ will hear him commit the crime.
- 27. a private room, especially a bedroom
- 29. This type of irony is used when the narrator takes a lot of care to hide the body but confesses anyway
- 31. On which night does the narrator kill the old man?
- 32. The narrator says he killed the old man because of his evil ___.
- 33. The narrator claims that the old man's eye was ___.
- 34. The old man becomes frightened when the narrator's thumb slips on the lantern's ___.
Down
- 1. The narrator does this to the old man's body after he is dead.
- 2. The narrator ___ when he hears the anxiety-provoking sound as he's talking to the police.
- 5. It is ___ that the old man is afraid of robbers.
- 7. The narrator of the story is a good example of a(n) ____ narrator.
- 9. The full name of the author who wrote this story
- 10. The narrator compares the old man's beating heart to the sound of a watch enveloped in ___.
- 13. The narrator tells the story using the ___ person perspective.
- 14. Poe uses this punctuation to convey agitation or nervousness in the narrator.
- 15. Vocabulary: A sharp or strong sensation
- 20. "Tell-tale" is another way of saying ____.
- 23. Vocabulary: To form or devise a plan or idea in the mind
- 26. a piece of lumber of small cross-section
- 28. The narrator hides the body in this location.
- 30. The narrator removes this number of boards from the floor.