“The Tell-Tale Heart” Study Guide
**Reminder – STUDY YOUR IRONY CHART!!**
Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions with complete sentences.
1. What does the narrator insist from the very beginning of the story that is carried throughout the story?
2. What is the “disease” the narrator mentions and what does he insist the disease has done for him?
3. Right before killing the old man, what does the narrator fear the neighbors will hear?
4. How does the narrator feel when he hears the heartbeat?
5. What forces the narrator to finally confess?
6. What is the heartbeat a symbol of? How do we know this?
7. Find two similes in the story. Give these examples, and explain why they are similes.
8. Find two metaphors in the story. Give these examples, and explain why they are metaphors.
9. Define: acute, suppositions, vex, wary, audacity
“The Tell-Tale Heart” Study Guide
**Reminder – STUDY YOUR IRONY CHART!!**
Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions with complete sentences.
1. What does the narrator insist from the very beginning of the story that is carried throughout the story?
2. What is the “disease” the narrator mentions and what does he insist the disease has done for him?
3. Right before killing the old man, what does the narrator fear the neighbors will hear?
4. How does the narrator feel when he hears the heartbeat?
5. What forces the narrator to finally confess?
6. What is the heartbeat a symbol of? How do we know this?
7. Find two similes in the story. Give these examples, and explain why they are similes.
8. Find two metaphors in the story. Give these examples, and explain why they are metaphors.
9. Define: acute, suppositions, vex, wary, audacity