Starter quiz

  • What narrative perspective is 'The Tell-Tale Heart' written from?
    • first person  ✓
    • second person
    • third person
  • What language method is used in the following quotation from 'The Tell-Tale Heart': "it is the beating of his hideous heart"?
    • personification
    • alliteration  ✓
    • simile
    • onomatopoeia
  • Complete the quotation from 'The Tell-Tale Heart': "True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am ...?"
    • 'mad' ✓
  • Which of the following is not an example of the writer's method?
    • the words they use
    • the characters they create
    • the allusions they make
    • the publisher they use  ✓
    • the puncutation they use
  • Complete the quotation from 'The Tell-Tale Heart': "To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I fairly ______ at the idea".
    • 'chuckled' ✓
  • Match the key vocabulary up to its definition.
    • heinous
      wicked and appaling ✓
    • concealed
      to be hidden ✓
    • deranged
      to not be of sound mind ✓
    • aghast
      horrified and shocked ✓
    • irrational
      not based upon logic or reason ✓
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