Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" begins: "True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" Which point of view does the story use?

Poe's narrator says, "The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them." What does he admit here without meaning to?

The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" claims, "I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?" What does the claim show the reader?

Poe's narrator says, "Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me." He then kills him. What does the reader see that the narrator does not?

In "The Tell-Tale Heart" the narrator says of the old man, "He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it." Whose view of the eye does the reader get?

Poe's narrator says, "Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me." Who is the "you" he speaks to?

After describing his slow entry, Poe's narrator asks, "Ha!—would a madman have been so wise as this?" What does the reader understand that he does not?

Poe's narrator says, "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him." Why does this sentence damage his case?

Poe's narrator says, "I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed." What is the reader's only source for this?

Poe's narrator says, "I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart." Which two responses does he claim at one moment?

In the dark bedroom Poe's narrator says, "It was the beating of the old man’s heart." What is the reader's only evidence for that sound?

Poe's narrator says, "Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story." How is the story delivered to the reader?

The police arrive and Poe's narrator says, "I smiled,—for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome." How does the moment look from an officer's position?

Poe's narrator says, "The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them. I was singularly at ease." Whose judgment of the officers is this?

Poe's narrator says, "I gasped for breath—and yet the officers heard it not." What does their calm suggest about the growing sound?

Poe's narrator asks, "And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not?" From where the officers sit, what is happening in that room?

Poe's narrator says, "They heard!—they suspected!—they knew!—they were making a mockery of my horror!—this I thought, and this I think." What does he give the reader here?

"The Tell-Tale Heart" ends with the narrator shrieking, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!" What does the outburst prove about his earlier telling?

In Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator never gives his own name or the old man's. What does withholding the names do to the reading?

In Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," everything the reader learns about the old man reaches the reader through the narrator.