Descriptive Adjectives In The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

Stephen King once said, “Description should begin in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” One can determine from this that he meant that though there is description in the story, it is up to the reader to decipher it. This is much demonstrated in many of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. The short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe uses stylistic techniques such as figurative language and descriptive adjectives to develop the characters and mood in the story.

“The Tell-Tale Heart” has a very strong appearance of descriptive adjectives. An example of this can be found in the very beginning of the story, when Poe describes the old man’s eye: “He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with a film over