direct quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell Tale Heart

"He had the eye of a vulture."-metaphor
"For a whole hour I did not move a muscle"-hyperbole
"until, at length a simple dim ray, like the thread of the spider"-simile

vocab words

simile-figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than.
metaphor-figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the words like, as, than, or resembles.
personification-special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it ere human.
allusion-reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, or pop culture.
hyperbole-an exaggeration.
irony-contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality-between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true.

The Characters in The Tell Tale Heart

In the Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, there are really only two main characters. These characters are the old man and the narrator. The narrator is pretty much insane. He tells the readers that he is not mad and that he is completely healthy and normal. You can tell that this is untrue because of the fact that he killed the old man for no reason and can tell the story like it was nothing. He says "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." That right there proves to you that he is crazy. This shows indirect characterization, because he tries to mislead you and tell you something that is not true. On the other hand the old man was completely different. He was a sweet, kind hearted person and even the narrator admitted this. The narrator told us "Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire." This is direct characterization because the narrator is telling you exactly what the person is like.

New Moon, Reading log

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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

In the Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, basically the story revolves around two men, the old man and the narrator. The narrator describes the old man as a very kind man that's has but one flaw and that is his eye which the narrator describes as a "vulture's eye." For some reason this eye really gets to the narrator, and drives him insane. Everyday his obsession with the eye seems to get worse until he decides that the only way to rid himself of the trouble is to kill the innocent old man. After making this decision, he spy's on the old man as he sleeps every night at midnight, shinning a light on the vulture eye. The only problem is that the narrator can not bring himself to kill the old man for every time he shines the light on his eye, it is closed. Finally on the eighth night he wakes the old man and the light shines on the mans eye, setting the narrator off. The narrator attacks the old man and kills him. To hid the old man's body, he cuts off all the man's limbs and stuffed him under the floorboards. Later that evening, three police officers came to the narrator's house claiming that the neighbors had heard a scream and they were there to investigate. The narrator kindly let them in telling them that it was him who had screamed in his sleep and that the old man was away on a trip to the country. The police easily believed him so the narrator asked them to stay and talk. They all sat in the old man's room talking for what seemed like hours, after a while the old man heard a beating identical to that of a beating heart. The narrator became frantic and was convinced that the police could hear it as well. So after minutes of anxiety, the narrator ripped up the floor boards exposing the old man's dead body. For the ticking had drove him insane.