The 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-pale blue eye"
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- Tone
- "And now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror."
- This quote proves the narrator is unreliable because he wants to kill the old man because of his eyes.
- Repetition
- "I think it was his eyes! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture--a pale blue eye, with a film over it"
- This is a simile because it compares an eye and vulture using the word “like.”
- Symbolism
- Sir is everything okay? You look stress out.
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- Is getting louder, louder, LOUDER, LOUDER AND LOUDER
- This quote proves the author's tone is suspenseful because it uses the word excited while he is going to kill someone.
- Imagery
- "There came a knocking at the street door"
- This repeated phrase creates suspense because the narrator keeps talking about how the old man's eye made him kill him.
- The beating of the heart represents how guilty he is feeling at that moment after killing the old man.
- This example contributes to the tone of suspense because he heard someone knocking on the door.
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