The Tell Tale Heart Rhetorical Devices

In the short story ‘The Tell Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allan Poe we see how first person narration keeps the audience engaged. Poe demonstrates this through the use of the techniques of foreshadowing, perspective and analogy. These techniques add to the reason in why the audience is continuously engaged.
Throughout the story Poe uses foreshadowing to demonstrate how first person narration keeps the audience engaged. Poe uses foreshowing for certain first person narration throughout the short story to give us, the readers advanced hints as to what is going to happen further on in the story. Foreshadowing is used when the man explains how “(He) made up (his) mind to take the life of the old man”. The use of the technique foreshadowing allows us to know what will happen towards the end of the short story, – the old man dying,
The man’s first person observation of himself intrigues the reader through his use of adjective and describing words; these words keep the reader hooked on the story as a clear picture is being demonstrated. A clear image through perspective is shown when the man explains how “(He) undid the lantern cautiously-oh, so cautiously – (he) undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye”. The man’s sense of dark tone and anger flows throughout the entire short story giving us the effect that the man’s madness has over taken his consciousness. After the man killed the old man his madness starts to show, he starts using short sharp sentences and starts asking himself questions. The perspective of his madness is shown through the example of “”Villains!” (He) shrieked, “Dissemble no more! (He) admit(ed) (he) did the deed! – tear up the planks! Here, here – it is the beating of his hideous heart!”” Through the examples we can see how the perspectives of first person narration keep the reader