Tell Tale Heart Study Packet

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Activity Packet pic pic Name ____________________________________________ L. A. gunpoint ________ Your score ___________out of 30 points possible ( Covers plot elements, comprehension, figurative language, mood, character traits, , and saddle horse ) Pre- put downing Guide for Tell-Tale Heart Name _________________________________________ Period ___________ (5 pts. ) Describe five things that you commonly find in a scary/ iniquity story 1. ______________________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________________ . _______________________________________________________________ 4. _______________________________________________________________ 5. ________________________________________________________________ Read the following statements. If you agree with them, put a check in the YOU column. Then, after(prenominal) we read the story, go back and put a check in the AUTHOR column if you feel the author agrees with that statement. YOUAUTHORSTATEMENT ____________1. People who are paranoid know that they are insane. ____________2. Sane people sometimes imagine that they adjudicate things. ___________3. If you commit a crime, the worst punishment is the guilt afterward. ____________4. Often its the small annoying things close people that can be the roughly irritating and infuriating. ____________5. All people are basically afraid of the analogous things. ____________6. When youve done something wrong, wondering if youll be caught can cause great emphasise and anxiety. Tell-Tale Heartcomprehension QuestionsName__________________ (20 pts. ) After reading Tell-Tale Heart by Poe, settle the following questions using short answers.They do not need to be complete sentences, but answer for each one part of the question thoroughly. 1. Who is revealing this story (narrating)? Is it first, second, or third person? 2. What is your first impression of the fabricator? Wha t does he try convincing the reader of? 3. How does the narrator feel about the old opus in general? What, then, specifically, is it about the old man that troubles/bothers the narrator? Why? How often does the narrator mention this thing in the story? 4. What does the narrator tell us he does every nighttime? Why? 5. How does the narrator feel immediately after he commits the finish off?Do his feelings change? If so, how and why? Tell-Tale Heart Comprehension Questions continuedName__________________ 6. What goodly drives the narrator to confess to the crime? What do you think causes his paranoia? 7. turn both direct and specific examples from the story that the author uses to create an atmosphere of horror or suspense. These are sentences that set or enhance the MOOD of the story. Give the page number. 8. Give one example where the author uses punctuation or repeated words or phrases in a sentence to assign the mood of horror or suspense. . Find one example of each of the f ollowing a. Alliteration Pg. ___ ___________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ b. Simile Pg. ________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ 10. c. Personification Pg. _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________