The Tell-Tale Heart

• Engels
• Middelbare school

Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allen Poe

Assignment

With the use of the next slides we will be analysing Tell-Tale Heart.

Have your short story, answers to the study questions and pen and paper ready. 

Ask questions whenever you feel like it.

Remember that you need to know this a year from now...

Which literary devices do you now know?

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

I'm drowing in a sea of grief.

The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

My love for you is as deep as the ocean.

What are some of the themes in Tell-Tale Heart?

Alliteration

Hyperbole

onomatopoeia

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

pow

Kim's kid kept kicking like crazy!

What are some of the symbols in Tell-Tale Heart?

What's the irony when it comes to the narrator?

Which elements of a gothic novel does Tell-Tale Heart have?

Do you have any questions left? What are they?