Tell Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe Jeopardy Template

Vocabulary	Suspense	Comprehension	Unreliable vs. Reliable Narrator	Comprehension
100 hypocritical What word means characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel	100 Suspense The effect Poe creates by having the narrator watch the old man sleep for seven days before carrying out his plan	100 Guilt The beating of the heart is a symbol of this	100 b. Story doesn’t appear to have a plot Which of the following is NOT a way readers can determine a narrator’s reliability? a. Lapse in time b. Story doesn’t appear to have a plot c. The author’s use of repetition to prove their point d. The author’s thoughts or viewpoints are biased	100 The narrator’s acute sense of hearing frightened him all the time What does the narrator mean when he says, “it haunted me day and night”?
200 Stifle What word means to smother	200 To not make him suspicious Why does the narrator treat the old man so nicely in the mornings	200 Recognize the narrator’s insanity By telling the story from the murder’s point of view, the author helps the reader	200 a. The narrator is probably tired What statement about the narrator is NOT reasonable, based on the following passage? “True! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed – not dulled them.” a. The narrator is probably tired b. The narrator is probably insane c. The narrator is nervous d. The narrator has a disease	200 Performs the act with perfect calmness In his description of the murder, the narrator feels that he
300 Vehemently What word means a state of being laughed at or ridiculed	300 Sympathetic Characters Which suspense technique is used in the following: “It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed.”	300 His madness Throughout the story, the narrator is gradually taken over by	300 b. Is the narrator insane? What question a reader might have after reading the passage. “You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded – with what caution -- …” a. Is the narrator lonely? b. Is the narrator insane? c. Will the narrator’s story be long or short? d. Will the narrator find true love?	300 a. The old man’s heart continuing to beat At the end of the story, the sound the man hears could be any of the following EXCEPT: a. The old man’s heart continuing to beat b. His own heart beat c. His imagination d. His guilty conscience
400 Audacity What word means bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraints	400 Dramatic Irony Which suspense technique is used in the following: “They sat, and while I answered cheerily, they chatted of familiar things. But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone.”	400 The narrator himself has groaned in the terror in the night Why does the sound of the old man’s groan in the middle of the night sound familiar to the narrator?	400 a. “True! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am!” Which of the following is the best clue that indicates the narrator to be unreliable? a. “True! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am!” b. “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.” c. “You should have seen how wisely I proceeded …” d. “He had never given me insult.”	400 The beating of a heart What sound is being described in the following passage? “ … a low, dull, quick sound, such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.”
500 Conceive What word means to take into one's mind, to have as an opinion	500 Setting and Mood Which suspense technique is used in the following: “ I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”	500 The narrator feels fury toward the old man, and the old man feels fear In the story, how do the narrator’s feelings contrast with the old man’s on the night of the murder?	500 True True or False - Narrator reliability can change the entire purpose for reading or the entire way we understand the story.	500 Under the floorboards Where does the narrator hide the old man’s body?

Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

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