The Tell-Tale Heart

Citing Text Evidence Match the character trait to the quote from the text that proves the character possesses that trait. Patient "I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle..." Guilty Was it possible they heard not?— no, no! They heard!— they suspected!— they knew! —they were making a mockery of my horror!—this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Insane "I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell." Deceitful The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country." Nervous "I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men—but the noise steadily increased. Oh! what could I do?" Label the parts of the Freitag's Triangle. Match the event from "The Tell-Tale Heart" to the corresponding piece of the plot diagram. Exposition: The narrator introduces himself and denies that he's insane. Rising Action: The narrator stands beside the old man’s bedroom door every night. He waits for the right moment. Climax: The narrator leaps upon the old man and kills him. Falling Action: The narrator hides the body under the floor. Resolution: The police arrive. The narrator hears the dead man’s heart beating. He becomes very upset and confesses to the crime.