Tell Tale Heart
Storyboard Text
- Point of View
- "..I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever."
- Figurative Language
- "..He had the eye of a vulture"
- Tone
- "It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant"
- This quote proves the narrator is unreliable because he is killing someone over they're eye.
- Repetition
- The quote above is an example of a metaphor because it compares two things without using like or as.
- Symbolism
- This quote proves the author’s tone is suspenseful because he wants you to be excited for him to get to part where he kills the old man.
- Imagery
- This repeated phrase creates suspense because your ready for what happens next.
- ", I undid the lantern cautiously--- oh, so cautiously---cautiously..."
- The heart symbolizes his guilty conscious because he didn't her the old mans heart he heard his guilty conscious eating at him inside.
- ". I knew that sound well too. It was the beating of the old mans heart."
- This example of imagery contributes to the tone of suspense because it builds to the feeling of being excited for what happens next.
- "..It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed."
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