The Tell Tale Heart
Storyboard Text
- Rising Action
- Climax
- Personification
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- "I thrust it in! I moved it slowly, very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. 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."
- Irony
- I am not mad!!
- "In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done. But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead."
- Falling Action
- "ALL IN VAIN, because Death in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim."
- Simile
- "He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more. If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."
- "There entered three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect suavity, as officers of the police."
- "Yet the sound increased -- and what could I do? It was A LOW, DULL, QUICK SOUND -- MUCH SUCH A SOUND AS A WATCH MAKES WHEN EVELOPED IN COTTEN."
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