The Tell-Tale Heart: Comprehension Questions

Believable reason why a suspect could not have been at the scene of a crime.

• disheveled

• hastily

• alibi

• furious

Hanging loosely; untidy; disarranged

• disheveled

• hastily

• alibi

• furious

To move quickly, speedy, hurriedly

• Disheveled

• hastily

• alibi

• furious

Full of fury, rage, anger

• disheveled

• hastily

• alibi

• furious

Conforming to moral and ethical principles

• virtuous

• suavity

• precisely

• villainously

Exactly; on point; on target

• virtuous

• suavity

• precisely

• villainously

Without haste

• Eminent

• leisurely

• derision

• audacity

What is the method of narration used in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction?

• first-person narrator

• narrator

• point of view

• unreliable narrator

Which type of narrator is a character in the story and uses words like I, me, my?

• suspense

• third-person

• first-person

• unreliable narrator

What do we call a narrator whose story cannot be trusted?

• suspense

• third-person

• first-person

• unreliable narrator