The Tell-Tale-Heart
Storyboard Text
- Point of view
- "It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night."
- Figurative lanuage
- "He had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it."
- tone
- "But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst."
- This is an example of first person in the story because he uses the words I, me, and my. This is also an example of that the narrator is unreliable because he says that he can't explain how the idea first entered his brain but he is explaining it throughout the story.
- repetition
- "It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant... It grew louder, I say , louder every moment!"
- The quote above is an example of a metaphor because it's comparing the old man's eye to the eye of a vulture without using the words like or as.
- symbolism
- "for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye."
- This proves the authors tone is suspenseful because it is using louder multiple times and it uses an exclamation point.
- imagery
- "a single dim ray, like the thread of a spider, shot out from the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye... all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones"
- This repeated phrase creates suspense because the way he uses louder you don't know what will happen to the heart and it shows the old man's terror.
- The old man's eye is symbolic because it is symbolizing how annoyed the narrator is because he feels like he has no privacy.
- This example of imagery contributes to the tone of suspense because we don't know if seeing the eye will enrage the narrator.
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