Answer the following questions using the SRE (statement, reason, evidence) format. Your evidence needs to be an actual quote from the short story. Color-code your answers with the RACE format :
R (restate)-green A (answer)-yellow C (cited evidence)-red E (elaborate)-orange
1. What does the narrator want us to believe about his sanity?
2. What was it about the old man that bothered the narrator?
3. What about the narrator's actions seemed odd?
4. How did the narrator kill the old man?
5. How does the narrator act when first confronted by the police?
6. What prompts the narrator to confess his crime?
7.What obvious poetic device (alliteration, internal rhyme, external rhyme, repetition) does Poe use in this story?
R (restate)-green A (answer)-yellow C (cited evidence)-red E (elaborate)-orange
1. What does the narrator want us to believe about his sanity?
2. What was it about the old man that bothered the narrator?
3. What about the narrator's actions seemed odd?
4. How did the narrator kill the old man?
5. How does the narrator act when first confronted by the police?
6. What prompts the narrator to confess his crime?
7.What obvious poetic device (alliteration, internal rhyme, external rhyme, repetition) does Poe use in this story?