"The Tell-Tale Heart" Crossword
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- 1. The narrator's _________ is shown when they explain their plan to kill the old man, contrary to their claim that they are sane.
- 5. The neighbors were __________ of the narrator when they heard the old man's cries.
- 9. The narrator denies that they are ______.
- 11. The narrator says that they have full _______ over their mind.
- 12. The narrator enters the old man in the middle of the night, when it is very ________ and quiet.
- 14. The narrator is _________ and admits their crime.
- 15. The narrator sneaks into the old man's house at midnight, when it is dark, creating an ______ atmosphere.
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- 2. The narrator believes that the police pretended not to hear the heartbeat, and __________ from the guilt.
- 3. The narrator ________ to the police and says that the cries were their own, and that the old man was away visiting a friend in the country.
- 4. The narrator ________ the old man in order to kill him.
- 6. The sound of the old man's heartbeat is described as the ticking of a _______ heard through a wall.
- 7. The narrator's guilt for killing the old man is represented by the old man's ___________.
- 8. The narrator describes the old man's eye as that of a _________.
- 10. One theme in the story is _______; many of Edgar Allan Poe's works involve this theme.
- 13. The old man gave a cry of ______ when the narrator went into his room to kill him.