Tell Tale Heart Flashcards
Energetic hand or arm movements?
Gesticulations
A narrow opening
Crevice
Contempt; ridicule
Derision
Intellectually deep; getting to the bottom of the matter
Profound
If you still you think me…….
Mad
Wood- boring beetles whose heads make a tapping sound
Deathwatches
Listen
Hearken
The authors choice of word for narration per character
Diction
A person, place or thing that has other layers of meaning besides its literal meaning
Symbol
He wrote the story
Edgar Allen Poe
High intelligence and sound judgement
Sagacity
To derive at a conclusion after careful analysis
Infer
It is the beating of the hideous….
Heart
Sensitive
Acute
Incongruity between what happens and what is expected
Irony
What the murderer hated about the old man?
His eye
Why the police arrive
Scream
Feeling of uncertainty about events
Suspense
Where the heart was under and hid?
The floorboard
Who wrote the “dinner party”
Mona Gardner
Who wrote “Patsy Barnes”
Paul Laurence Dunbar
