The Tell-Tale Heart 2B

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• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

The Tell-Tale Heart

Point of view, (un)reliable narrator & figurative language

Planning

• Attendance check: answer the question in Classroom
• Lesson aims & introduction (together)
• Work individually, ask questions in Chat
• Figurative language (individually & together)
• Work on story individually, ask questions in Chat
• Evaluate (together)

Lesson aims

Edgar Allan Poe

January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849

American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

Guess: what do you think 'Tell-Tale' means?

Now use the internet: what does 'Tell-Tale' means?

What do you think the story is about?

Read 'The Tell-Tale Heart'

• Read 'The Tell-Tale Heart', look up words you don't know and make exercise 2 & 3.
• Continue with exercise 4 about figurative language.

Please be back in the Meet at 12:10

Literal language

Figurative language

It was very rainy today.

I died laughing.

You are my sunshine.

The new teacher is as tall as a giraffe.

I an very hungry

The shoes are red

Can you find the example of alliteration in the following fragment?

"True! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story."

Share your example of alliteration here

Can you find the example of hyperbole in the following fragment?

"True! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story."

Share your example of hyperbole here

Come up with your
own examples of alliteration

Come up with your own
examples of
hyperbole

Work on your own story

Read through the final assignment and continue writing your own horror story. 

Please be back in the Meet at 12:55.

What would you like to learn more about that would help you with writing your own horror story?