The Tell-Tale Heart

1. Point of View

The Tell-Tale Heart is told in the first person, by the killer's point of view. We can clearly notice it by reading the word "I".

2. Style

2.1. Imagery : "Whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold"
Darkness, sounds- heart beat / beating of drum

2.2. Metaphor : "fell upon the vulture eye, stone dead"
He compares the old man's eyes to vulture's eyes

2.3. Simile : "It was a low, dull, quick sound / black as pitch / heart beating like a drum/ ray of light like shread of a spider"

2.4. Personification : Death describe as a black shadow

2.5. Irony : It is ironic that the narrator tought the old man was kind, but he killed because he was evil. It`s ironic that he conceals the body reallly well and then gives himself away. That he says he`s not mad. Kindness, cruelty but really insane. Precautions vs honest. Insanity vs sanity.

Themes :

1. A human being has a perverse, wicked side that can goad him or her into doing evil things with no apparent motive.
2. Fear of discovery can bring about discovery.
3. The evil within is worse than the evil or ugliness without.

Prefixes

• Dis-ease                               
• Im-possible
• Fore-sight
• Des-ire
• Mid-night
• Un-did
• Con-tain
• Pre-sently
• Intro-duced
• Ex-treme

Suffixes

• Cause-less
• Uncontroll-able