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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Question 1 • TX-College Prep English A

If you were reading aloud from "The Tell-Tale Heart,” which underlined words would you need to say together fluently, without pausing? Check all that apply.“No doubt I now grew very pale;—but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice.”“When I had made an end of these labors, it was four o’clock—still dark as midnight.”“I moved it slowly—very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man’s sleep.”“And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it—oh so gently!”“Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door.”

Answer
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“No doubt I now grew very pale;—but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice.”
B
“When I had made an end of these labors, it was four o’clock—still dark as midnight.”
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“I moved it slowly—very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man’s sleep.”
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“And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it—oh so gently!”
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“Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door.”
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