1. Agenda 10-10-12 Good Things Literary elements review
Continue reading “The Tell Tale Heart”
Storyboard
Vocabulary Charts

2. Review: Matching Mood Tone Foreshadowing Flashback Unreliable Narrator
A person telling the story who can’t be trusted
A character who we learn a lot about.
A representation of a big, abstract idea through an object or phrase.
A genre of writing that relies on fear to suck us in.
The emotional feeling we have as a reader.
Clues as to the end of the story.
The manner in which the writer decides to present the story.
A character we don’t learn a lot about
Going back to a time before the current story.
Mood
Tone
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Unreliable Narrator
Round Character
Flat Character
Horror Fiction
Symbolism

3. Types of Context Clues
Example: look for punctuation and words such as “like”, “or”, “for example.”
General: Read the whole paragraph for the meaning of the word.
Synonym/Compare: using a word with the same meaning that you probably know to provide the meaning of the context word.
Antonym/Contrast: using a word with an opposite meaning you probably know to provide the meaning of the context word.
Restatement: the definition is provided in the sentence by reusing it in another manner
Definition: The word is actually defined

4. Brainteasers Where do baby ghosts go during the day?
Why was the skeleton afraid to cross the road?
What kind of streets do zombies like best?

5. What are the scariest things to go bump in the night?
What are you afraid of lurking in the dark?

6. The Tell-Tale Heart
By Edgar Allen Poe

7. Edgar Allan Poe

8. Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe was the first American Horror Story author.
Poe’s characters experienced much internal conflict, which made him a master of psychological suspense.

9. Horror Fiction Characteristics
Fiction that plays on our emotions such as fear.
Good horror makes us think there might be a POSSIBILITY of the horrible thing actually being true.
Horror fiction contains a monster:
Someone or something threatening and/or impure (evil).
If the monster is threatening, we feel scared.
If the monster is impure, we feel disgusted.
Horror fiction contains a realistic threat

10. Themes of Horror fiction
Most of the lessons have to do with discovering something about the possibility of bad human nature or evil experience.
Horror Fiction also highlights choices and temptations, good versus evil, plans versus fate, and consequences of actions.

11. Types of Characters Round characters
Characters that have a lot of personality and development.
Flat characters
Characters that we do not know much about at all.

12. Symbolism
Use of a physical item represents a more important, abstract idea.
A “dark shadow” or a raven may represent Death.

13. Mood The atmosphere or emotional feeling of a story
Mood is revealed through the description of the setting, the characters, and the dialogue.

14. Tone
The author’s attitude toward the subject of their writing, such as positive/negative; compassionate/uncaring .
NOTE: the MOOD is something that the reader feels. The TONE is something that the writer feels. Mr. T.W.

15. Narrator Narrator: The person telling us the story.
First Person: His own experience and recollection of events.
Unreliable Narrator: A narrator that doesn't know the truth, or doesn't have a realistic version of the true story.
As readers, we know the truth or otherwise come to distrust the words of the narrator.
As we read, determine whether this narrator is reliable or unreliable.
As we read/listen write down clues to the narrator's sanity or insanity.

16. Foreshadowing & Flashback
Foreshadowing: A technique through which a writer provides clues about the outcome of a story before the end.
Flashback: A technique through which a writer stops the present flow of a story to tell about something that happened at an earlier date.
As we read the story, write down clues that indicate how the story will end.

17. Double Climax Two moments of intensity in a story.
This happens when a character has more than one conflict to overcome.
Conflict  tension  Climax
What are two conflicts that the narrator has to overcome?
What events cause the conflict for the narrator?

18. Words To Know Acute Audacity Conceived Crevice Stifled Derision
Hypocritical
Stealthily
Vex
Vehemently
Suavity
Sagacity
Waned

19. Acute
“Above all was my sense of hearing acute. I hear all things in the heaven and the earth.”
Synonym: precise
Antonym: dull
Sharp/keen

20. Audacity
“I welcomed them to their seats with a wild audacity and triumph.”
Synonym: bravado
Antonym: wimpy
Shameless daring or boldness

21. Conceived
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”
Synonym: imagined
Antonym: forget
Thought of

22. vex “It was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.”
Synonym: bother, bug, irritate
Antonym: ignored
To annoy or disturb

23. stifled
“…it was a low, stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.”
Synonym: quiet, trapped
Antonym: loud
Muffled

24. Crevice “I opened the lamp to reveal a tiny crevice…” Synonym: space
Antonym: seal
A crack

25. Stealthily
“You can not imagine how stealthily and quietly I opened the lantern.”
Synonym: sneaky
Antonym: clumsy
Sinister cautiousness

26. Vehemently “I talked more quickly, more vehemently…”
Synonym: certain, with conviction
Antonym: insecure
With intense emotion

27. Derision
“They were making a mockery of me! I was tired of such derision and joking!”
Synonym: make fun of
Antonym: tolerate
Ridicule

28. Hypocritical “I could bear their hypocritical smiles no longer!”
Synonym: two- faced
Antonym: honest
False or deceptive, pretending to be who you are not.

29. Tell-Tale
The girl’s smile was a tell-tale sign that she was lying to her mother.
Synonym: tattletale, a symbol of existence
Antonym: secrets
Something that reveals or betrays what is not intended to be known

30. Sagacity
“Never before had I known the power of my own sagacity, of my own wit.”
Synonym: smart
Antonym: dumb
Intelligent

31. Suavity
“There entered three men, who introduced themselves with perfect suavity.”
Synonym: cool
Antonym: uncool
Smooth, refined

32. Waned “The night waned, but still I worked hastily and in silence.”
Synonym: cease
Antonym: begin
To approach the end of a period of time.

33. Story Background
In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator insists he is not mad (crazy).
As the story unfolds, we are exposed to the darkness of his mind and questionable sanity.

34. Story Board Fold your paper so that you have 8 squares.
Number each square. Leave room for writing and drawing
We will stop and visualize what is happening in the scene.
Below each drawing, write a sentence explaining what is happening in the frame.

35. Copy these onto paper and Answer in complete sentences
What terrible thing does the narrator do?
What drives the man to do the deed?
Do you think the old-man knew he was going to die? How?
Why does the man confess his crime to the police?
What does the beating heart represent?
What is meant by “Tell-Tale” Heart? In other words, what does the phrase symbolize?
What effect does the repetition of phrases have on the mood of the story? “with what caution—with what foresight—with what dissimulation.”
Where is this man now that he can tell us the story?
Is the narrator reliable? Why or why not? Use examples from the story to support your answer.
Was the narrator sane and just pushed to the point of horrible behavior, or was he insane all along? Use evidence from the story to support your answer.

36. Someone I Admire
Think of a person, real or fictional, who you think is admirable.
Write down details about each of the following:
Name of the person (real or fictional, living or deceased).
How you know or know of this person;
What the person looks/looked like;
What the person does/did in his or her life that was cool enough to admire;
Why you think of this person as a positive person in your life;
Things about the person you would like to have within yourself.

37. Answers A person telling the story who can’t be trusted
A character who we learn a lot about.
A representation of a big, abstract idea through an object or phrase.
A genre of writing that relies on fear to suck us in.
The emotional feeling we have as a reader.
Clues as to the end of the story.
The manner in which the writer decides to present the story.
A character we don’t learn a lot about
Going back to a time before the current story.

38. Grammar D.O.L. page 633
Participial phrases are verbs that end in “ing” and are used with an adjective or adverb to describe the action a noun or pronoun is doing in a sentence.
These are used to show that more than one thing is happening at a time.
Turn to page 633
Write questions 2, 4, and 5 replacing the word in the parentheses with a participle phrase.

39. D.O.L.
Listen_____ _____________ he became convinced someone was there.
Work____ _________________I overturned the bed.
Smile____ _______________I welcomed the officers.