The tell tale heart
Storyboard Text
- Point of View
- "I heard all things in heaven and in the hell".
- Figurative Language
- "There came to my ears a low dull quick sound such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton i knew that sound well too it was the beating of the old mans heart".
- "Yet the sound increased and what could i do ? it was a low dull quick sound much as a sound a watch makes hen enveloped in cotton.I gasped for breath and yet the officers heard it not."
- Tone
- This quote proves that the narrator is unreliable because he has never been to neither heaven or h3ll.
- Repetition
- "But the noise arose over all and continually increased it grew louder louder"!
- I must scream or die and now again hark louder! louder! louder!
- The quote is an example of a simile because it uses the words "a watch makes when enveloped in cotton" and compares it to the old man's heart.
- Symbolism
- And so it was so impossible to do the work for it was the old man who vexed me but his evil eye".
- This quote proves that the author's tone is suspenseful because these specific words "I gasped for breath yet the offices heard it not".
- Imagery
- i kept quite still and said nothing for a whole hour i did not move a muscle and in the meantime i did not hear him lie down.
- The repeated phrase creates suspense because the story starts to become interesting
- The evil eye symbolizes hatred against something or someone.
- this example of imagery contributes to the tone of suspense because it describes how still he was in a very detailed way.
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