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Tell TaleHeart
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DISCUSS
Suspense
Suspense
Evaluate Narrator
Evaluate Narrator
Evaluate Narrator
As you read “The Tell-Tale Heart,” use a chart like the one below to
record clues that reveal whether the narrator is reliable or not.
Narrator’s Reliability
acute
Poe uses the words in the box to the right to reveal audacity
how the main character is acting, feeling, and conceive
thinking. For each word below, choose a word from
crevice
the box that is closest in meaning. Answers appear in
brackets. derision
hypocritical
1. annoy [vex]
stealthily
2. cautiously [stealthily] stifled
vehemently
3. intense [acute]
vex
4. crack [crevice]
5. deceptive [hypocritical]
The Tell-Tale Heart
acute
audacity
conceive
6. smothered [stifled]
crevice
7. ridicule [derision] derision
hypocritical
8. think of [conceive] stealthily
stifled
9. strongly [vehemently] vehemently
vex
10. shameless daring [audacity]
The Tell-Tale Heart
conceive v. to think of
crevice n. crack
derision n. ridicule
The Tell-Tale Heart