... Why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses... I heard many things in hell... Hearken! and observe how healthily -- how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
Rising Action
And this I did for seven long nights -- every night just at midnight -- but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.
Climax / Turning Point
The old man was dead... Yes, he was stone, stone dead... His eye would trouble me no more.
The Narrator introduces the story by talking about how he killed the old man and his vulture eye.
Conflict
For seven nights, the Narrator goes to the old man's room but cannot kill him because the eye is closed.
Falling Action
The Narrator kills the old man.
Resolution
Villains! Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -- tear up the planks! -- here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous heart!
On the eighth night, the old man wakes up and the Narrator sees the eye and hears the heartbeat.
I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in the bed, crying out - "Who's there?"
The policemen arrive at the house and the narrator lets them explore around the house, including the old man's room.
he confesses to the policemen that he was the one who killed the old man.