The Tell-Tale Heart Vocab+

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Across
  1. 3. The narrator decides to murder the old man because of the old man's pale blue eye, which resembles the eye of a ________.
  2. 5. The concealment of one's real feelings, motives, or intentions
  3. 6. The narrator hides the old man's dismembered body beneath the ________ in the bedroom.
  4. 12. reflects the author's or narrator’s attitude toward the subject
  5. 13. Dramatic or expressive body movements and gestures
  6. 14. officers The narrator places his own chair directly above the spot where the body is hidden when conversing with the ________.
  7. 15. Driven to agony by the sound and the perceived mocking smile of the officers, the narrator confesses to the crime and calls the officers ________.
  8. 18. Allan Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart" was written by the famous American author ________.
  9. 20. Every night for ________ nights, the narrator sneaks into the old man’s room at midnight.
  10. 21. A narrow opening or crack
  11. 22. As the police stay and chat, the narrator begins to hear a low, dull, quick sound, which he compares to a sound a ________ makes when wrapped in cotton.
Down
  1. 1. Annoyed, frustrated, or worried
  2. 2. The narrator believes the sound he hears is the beating of the dead man's ________.
  3. 4. the psychological and emotional feeling or atmosphere created by writer
  4. 7. Highly sensitive or sharp, particularly regarding the senses
  5. 8. Small wooden beams or timbers supporting floorboards
  6. 9. Sound judgment, wisdom, or keen mental insight
  7. 10. The narrator insists throughout the story that he is not mad, but rather suffers from an over-acuteness of the sense of ________.
  8. 11. Smooth, polite, and charming manners
  9. 12. ________ police officers arrive at the house after a neighbor reports hearing a shriek.
  10. 16. Done with intense force, passion, or conviction
  11. 17. Bold, arrogant, or reckless daring
  12. 19. Ridicule, contempt, or mockery