Tell Tale Heart

2. a state of resting or not being active
3. to laugh at or make fun of
4. not able to be trusted
6. a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar. “He was drowning in paperwork” is a ______ in which having to deal with a lot of paperwork is being compared to drowning in an ocean of water.
9. the use of words or actions that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny
10. an idea or theory that you believe is true even though you do not have proof
12. certain to die
16. using like or as to make a comparison
17. irony occurs when the opposite of what one would expect to happen actually happens
19. feeling or showing concern for someone
20. to completely cover (someone or something) : to completely enclose or surround (someone or something)
21. fear or nervousness about what might happen
23. a narrow opening or crack in a surface
25. to judge the value or condition of something or someone

1. giving human qualities to non-human things.
5. irony occurs when there is a difference between what a character says and what another character understands
7. causing people to think seriously about something
8. the creation of words that imitate natural sounds; Buzz and hiss are examples
10. a feeling or state of nervousness or excitement caused by wondering what will happen
11. an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own. “Hit the hay.” “Stabbed in the back” ...“Kill two birds with one stone.” ...“Piece of cake” ...“Costs an arm and a leg” ...
13. able to be trusted
14. to intentionally cause pain to another person or thing
15. to become smaller or less : to decrease in size amount length or quality
18. having or showing an ability to think clearly and to understand what is not obvious or simple about something
22. irony occurs when the reader knows something that a character doesn’t
24. difficult and frustrating to deal with