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"The Tell-Tale Heart": by Edgar Allan Poe

The document provides an activity packet and comprehension questions for students to complete after reading Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". The packet includes pre-reading questions about common elements of horror stories, statements for students to agree or disagree with before and after reading, and multiple choice and short answer comprehension questions about key plot points, characters, and the narrator's state of mind in the story.

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"The Tell-Tale Heart": by Edgar Allan Poe

The document provides an activity packet and comprehension questions for students to complete after reading Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". The packet includes pre-reading questions about common elements of horror stories, statements for students to agree or disagree with before and after reading, and multiple choice and short answer comprehension questions about key plot points, characters, and the narrator's state of mind in the story.

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“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

Activity Packet

Name

Your score out of 30 points possible


Eng. Period
(Covers plot elements, comprehension,
figurative language, mood,
character traits, , and setting )
Pre-Reading Guide for “Tell-Tale Heart”

Name Riva Chai Period (5 pts.)

Describe five things that you usually find in a scary/horror story:

1. Darkness

2. creepy sounds

3. Blood

4. Symbolic of bad luck( like the sound of crow

5. Lethal weapon

Read the following statements. If you agree with them, put a check in the YOU column.
Then, AFTER we read the story, go back and put a check in the AUTHOR column if you
feel the author agrees with that statement.

YOU AUTHOR STATEMENT

D 1. People who are insane know that they are insane.

D 2. Sane people sometimes imagine that they hear things.

A 3. If you commit a crime, the worst punishment is the guilt


afterward.

D 4. Often it’s the small annoying things about people that can be the
most irritating and infuriating.

A 5. All people are basically afraid of the same things.

A 6. When you’ve done something wrong, wondering if you’ll be caught


can cause great stress and anxiety.
“Tell-Tale Heart”comprehension Questions Name (20 pts.)

After reading “Tell-Tale Heart” by Poe, answer the following questions using short answers. They
do not need to be complete sentences, but answer each part of the question thoroughly.

1. Who is telling this story (narrating)? Is it first, second, or third person?

The narrator, Ist person


1. What is your first impression of the narrator? What does he try convincing the reader of?
The words he said is a bit creepy, seems like he has some mental problem.
He try to convincing the reader that he is not mad.

1. How does the narrator feel about the old man 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?

The narrator thinks the old man is a kind people, he loved him. But his eye bothers the
narrator. Because one of his pale blue eyes have a film, and every time the old man look at
the narrator, his blood ran cold.
The narrator mention the old man’s eyes every often. Because that’s the reason why he
wanna kill the old man.

2. What does the narrator tell us he does every night? Why?

He carefully open the old man’s door and peeping him every night.
Because when the old man fall asleep, the narrator can stop feeling torment by his eyes

2. How does the narrator feel immediately after he commits the murder? Do his feelings
change? If so, how and why?

I think he feels released immediately, he finally can stop tortured by the sound of the old man’s heartbeat
“Tell-Tale Heart” Comprehension Questions continued… Name

6. What sound drives the narrator to confess to the crime? What do you think causes his
paranoia?
The old man’s heartbeat sounds. I think his disease causes his paranoia.

1. Give two 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.

But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst. And
now a new anxiety seized me p178
I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting and grated it upon the
boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew
louder—louder—louder! P181

3. Give one example where the author uses punctuation or repeated words or phrases in a
sentence to show the mood of horror or suspense.
It was open—wide, wide open—and I grew furious as I gazed upon it.
It grew quicker and quicker and louder and louder every instant.

a. Find one example of each of the following:

a. Allit
eration – Pg.
Hearken! And observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.”

a. Simi
le – Pg. His
room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness

1. c.
Personification – Pg. Death in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him and
enveloped the victim.”

d. Assonance – Pg. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth

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